Too Scary ! Not ! (Score 2, Insightful)

I think the FreeBSD team is being overly cautious about this issue. They now have disabled HTT by default on all of there release trees stating the reason is because information leakage is possible. This is not ture when anyone can just change the crypto method they are using to something like an RSA method using a FFT(Fast Fourier Transform). There are other methods possible too such as just forcing the HT sibling to go idle for a period of time which would allow the crypto program to run without leaking any information.
-DR