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Soliciting input regarding a potential hardening effort

Type: otherSources: OpenSSL news

OpenSSL is seeking community input on a potential hardening effort for residual data in SIMD registers. The announcement describes the issue as a side-channel vector requiring local system access and says there are no known exploits; it does not announce a fix.

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1 Nov 2026, 22:01 UTC · Revision 1

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Soliciting input regarding a potential hardening effort

official-openssl-news · Original source

Published 3 Jun 2024, 20:00 UTC

OpenSSL is seeking community input on a potential hardening effort for residual data in SIMD registers. The announcement describes the issue as a side-channel vector requiring local system access and says there are no known exploits; it does not announce a fix.

OpenSSL is soliciting input on a hardening effort for our library.

OpenSSL

Fixed versions: Not specified

Complete source record
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