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		bryant on Jan 28, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: CacheOut: Leaking Data on Intel CPUs via Cache Evi... Dumb question: authors mention this not being exploitable via JS, but what about WASM?

johncolanduoni on Jan 28, 2020 [–]

No, WASM doesn’t expose the ability to generate TSX instructions so it can’t be used to exploit this.

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