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by maxharris 3084 days ago
What part of the paper do you take issue with?

Can you point to a specific design feature in the linked paper (or in any of the talks on the Mill CPU) that might be vulnerable?

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> What part of the paper do you take issue with?

There exists no Mill CPU - just software models of it at best.

Do you not think it's reasonable to believe that the Mill is immune to these flaws without hardware given the information presented in this paper?
It is plausible, but without having a concrete CPU on which independent researchers are able to do independent tests I am rather cautious.

Intel, AMD and ARM also claimed that the branch prediction on their CPUs cannot in practise be used to generate a side channel - Spectre proved otherwise.