Windows 10 19H1 with Retpoline Spectre V2 Mitigation
By guenni | Oct. 20th, 2018
Surprise in Windows 10 Insider Preview 19H1: The kernel contains the Retpoline technology to protect it from Spectre V2 attack. This is to minimize the power loss caused by this protection.
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Google software developers had the idea to mitigate speculative side channel attacks for Spectre (and Meltdown) using special code constructs. The technique is called Retpoline … Google used the Retpoline technique to patch its own servers for the cloud.
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