From: Katherine Cox-Buday <cox.katherine.e@gmail.com>
To: raingloom <raingloom@riseup.net>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Hardened toolchain
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2022 06:07:10 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bkwonlwh.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220415183441.49a2628b@riseup.net> (raingloom@riseup.net's message of "Fri, 15 Apr 2022 18:34:41 +0200")
raingloom <raingloom@riseup.net> writes:
> People shouldn't have to take extra steps and burn extra CPU cycles
> for security.
To be clear, I don't have a strong opinion on this, but I wanted to give an alternative viewpoint: people shouldn't have to take extra steps and burn extra CPU cycles for performance.
Everyone has different threat models and needs. A lot of computers have CPU speculative execution attack mitigation disabled because those types of attacks will never affect those computers, and it reduces the performance of the CPU a lot.
I suggest we pick our default with care, and if possible with data about what most users would like.
--
Katherine
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-04-26 11:21 UTC|newest]
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2022-03-21 13:34 Hardened toolchain zimoun
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2022-03-22 19:06 ` zimoun
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2022-03-27 20:06 ` zimoun
2022-03-27 20:22 ` Maxime Devos
2022-03-28 3:17 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2022-03-28 7:35 ` zimoun
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2022-03-29 10:15 ` Ludovic Courtès
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2022-04-15 15:18 ` jbranso
2022-04-15 16:04 ` Zhu Zihao
2022-04-15 16:34 ` raingloom
2022-04-26 11:07 ` Katherine Cox-Buday [this message]
2022-04-28 17:36 ` Aurora
2022-04-28 17:41 ` Katherine Cox-Buday
2022-04-28 19:53 ` Aurora
2022-04-28 17:50 ` Vagrant Cascadian
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2022-04-29 10:31 ` zimoun
2022-04-29 15:51 ` kiasoc5--- via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2022-05-02 14:55 ` Katherine Cox-Buday
2022-05-02 16:25 ` Maxime Devos
2022-05-02 17:41 ` zimoun
2022-05-02 21:10 ` Maxime Devos
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