> Hopefully this will lead to automated testing procedures for Intel, other processor manufacturers and security researchers.
They have tons of testing already. The problem is that this is the kind of problem which is easy to miss with tests, especially automated ones, because everything worked correctly and no real code would ever have been affected by the side effects.
I’m sure it will but I wouldn’t underestimate the difficulty of finding significant unintended state changes in something on the order of complexity of a modern CPU.
They have tons of testing already. The problem is that this is the kind of problem which is easy to miss with tests, especially automated ones, because everything worked correctly and no real code would ever have been affected by the side effects.