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Meltdown, Spectre bug patch slowdown gets real – and what you can do about it

RandSec

There is Vulnerable and then there is Vulnerable

AMD EPYC servers have hardware encryption for VM's. AMD seems to be about as vulnerable as Intel with Spectre, but even if Spectre succeeds, what it gets is encrypted data on EPYC, versus plaintext data on Intel.

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