5 ms·

Does it run slower? I'd expect dedicated hardware to do that encryption/decryption, in which case there should be no difference.

• pseudohadamard 3mo ago
  I think it's more a reference to Spectre and Meltdown and Rowhammer and a bazillion other hold-my-beer attacks that have never, ever been used in the wild but that everyone pays the price for by having their CPUs slowed down by the countermeasures. Applying Unicorn Repellant is fine when there's no cost, but it definitely has a cost in these cases.
  • Itoldmyselfso 3mo ago
    How can you be so sure they have never been used in the wild? Surely not all uses of them get reported...
    • pseudohadamard 3mo ago
      The same way I'm fairly sure that no-one's ever been attacked by a unicorn. There could be lots of unreported attacks, but I'm pretty sure there aren't any actual ones. What we do have is millions of actual, real-world attacks (see any security body's top-ten list) that we aren't mitigating because we're too busy focusing on silly attacks that no-one ever uses.
• WillPostForFood 3mo ago
  I had read there was a ~5% slowdown with it enabled.