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Update "Xor-as-a-Service" writeup with reference to INTEL-SA-00464
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2020-09-05-confidence-finals/xaas/README.md

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p4{zero_values_move_faster}
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## Post Mortem
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While content-dependent optimizations may be risky in general, we cannot think of any practical abuse of _Hardware Store Elimination_ against real-world applications.
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However Intel found some reasons to disable this with most recent [microcode update](https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advisory/intel-sa-00464.html).

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