OpenSSH Now Encrypts Secret Keys in Memory Against Side-Channel Attacks
In recent years, several groups of cybersecurity researchers have disclosed dozens of memory side-channel vulnerabilities in modern processors and DRAMs, like Rowhammer, RAMBleed, Spectre, and Meltdown.
Did you ever notice that they all had at least one thing in common?
That's OpenSSH.
As a proof-of-concept, many researchers demonstrated their side-channel attacks against OpenSSH