Some thoughts on Spectre and Meltdown
I&#x27;m gonna go and take issue with the claim that you were the first to come up with microarchitectural attacks, and that their story begins in 2004:<p>- Dan Page published [1] in 2002, describing an attack on DES exploiting cache timings. In 2003, he published [2] describing countermeasures to this class of attacks.<p>- Concurrently, a Japanese team also attacked DES (and MISTY1) with cache timing [3, 4].<p>- Dan Bernstein published the first version of his AES cache timing attack in late 2004 [5].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eprint.iacr.org&#x2F;2002&#x2F;169" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eprint.iacr.org&#x2F;2002&#x2F;169</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;doi.org&#x2F;10.1016&#x2F;S1363-4127(03)00104-3" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;doi.org&#x2F;10.1016&#x2F;S1363-4127(03)00104-3</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;link.springer.com&#x2F;chapter&#x2F;10.1007&#x2F;978-3-540-45238-6_6" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;link.springer.com&#x2F;chapter&#x2F;10.1007&#x2F;978-3-540-45238-6_...</a><p>[4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20060906064630&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.engr.oregonstate.edu&#x2F;~aciicmez&#x2F;osutass&#x2F;data&#x2F;Tsunoo02.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20060906064630&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.engr.o...</a><p>[5] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cr.yp.to&#x2F;antiforgery&#x2F;cachetiming-20041121.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cr.yp.to&#x2F;antiforgery&#x2F;cachetiming-20041121.pdf</a>