phc-discussions - Re: [PHC] What Microsoft Would like from the PHC

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Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 17:21:20 +0200
From: Krisztián Pintér <pinterkr@...il.com>
To: "discussions@...sword-hashing.net" <discussions@...sword-hashing.net>
Subject: Re: [PHC] What Microsoft Would like from the PHC - Passwords14 presentation

On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 5:59 AM, Rade Vuckovac <rade.vuckovac@...il.com> wrote:

> 1st it is relatively easy to allocate non-cacheable memory (comparing to
> keeping everything in cache). It is not portable but it seems that every
> major OS supports that option.

1. imagine the documentation saying "and you need to allocate
non-cached memory from the OS". most of the time we don't even
allocate memory, we let the runtime environment do it.

2. testing is a bit problematic. how do you test if it is cached? you
attempt timings?

3. what about virtual OSs? i don't think the host OS respects such requests.