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Testspec: Valgrind CT::poison() overview #255

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@reneme reneme commented Oct 28, 2024

Closes #231

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@reneme reneme changed the title WIP: Testspec: Valgrind CT::poison() overview Testspec: Valgrind CT::poison() overview Oct 29, 2024
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Nice! I like this description. Especially the example gives a good intuition about Valgrind. I left some comments, mainly to make my Grammarly license worth it.

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* **Results are not easily generalizable**

Valgrind detects secret-dependent execution patterns in a specific binary
that was generated with certain compiler flags and for a concrete hardware
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that was generated with certain compiler flags and for a concrete hardware
that was generated with certain compiler flags and for concrete hardware

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I disagree here. The point is that it is "one specific concrete hardware", no?

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Well, the phase continues in the next line:
... and for [a] concrete hardware platform.

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Co-Authored-By: Fabian Albert <[email protected]>
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