In cryptography, a timing attack is a side-channel attack in which the attacker attempts to compromise a cryptosystem by analyzing the time taken to execute...
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Cache timing attacks also known as Cache attacks are a type of side-channel attack that allows attackers to gain information about a system purely by tracking...
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security, a side-channel attack is a type of security exploit that leverages information inadvertently leaked by a system—such as timing, power consumption...
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"Computing in the Presence of Timing Failures" (PDF). Retrieved 2025-04-11. Wright, Gavin (2023-11-28). "What is a timing attack?". Search Security. Retrieved...
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Advanced Encryption Standard (section Known attacks)
Bernstein announced a cache-timing attack that he used to break a custom server that used OpenSSL's AES encryption. The attack required over 200 million...
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RSA cryptosystem (redirect from Branch prediction analysis attacks)
ciphertext, and so the timing attack fails. In 1998, Daniel Bleichenbacher described the first practical adaptive chosen-ciphertext attack against RSA-encrypted...
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A Lucky Thirteen attack is a cryptographic timing attack against implementations of the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol that use the CBC mode...
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Dawn Xiaodong; Wagner, David; Tian, Xuqing (2001), "Timing analysis of keystrokes and timing attacks on SSH" (PDF), Proceedings of the 10th Conference on...
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Cross-site leaks (redirect from COSI attacks)
well-known cross-site leaks are timing attacks, which depend on timing events within the web browser. For example, cache-timing attacks rely on the web cache to...
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Transport Layer Security (redirect from BEAST attack)
can be attacked with the Lucky Thirteen attack if the library is not written carefully to eliminate timing side channels. The Sweet32 attack breaks block...
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Spectre (security vulnerability) (redirect from Spectre attack)
side channel through which an attacker may be able to extract information about the private data using a timing attack. In addition to vulnerabilities...
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on a number of platforms. Käsper and Schwabe described a "Faster and Timing-Attack Resistant AES-GCM" that achieves 10.68 cycles per byte AES-GCM authenticated...
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PARASITE, a paper in which they demonstrate practical exploitation of a timing attack over the network. This exploits non-constant implementations of modular...
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that authenticates with Elliptic Curves DSA over a binary field via a timing attack. The vulnerability was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0e. In August 2013, it was...
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Clock drift (category Cryptographic attacks)
to build random number generators. These can however be exploited by timing attacks. Everyday clocks such as wristwatches have finite precision. Eventually...
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Dan Boneh (section Timing attacks)
"partially homomorphic cryptosystem". Timing attacks are a type of side-channel attack that allows an adversary to attack a security system by studying now...
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Traffic analysis (redirect from Traffic analysis attack)
therefore, the attacker can link the flows in one side to the other side of the network and break the anonymity of it. It is shown, although timing noise is...
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synchronous digital circuit Dynamic timing analysis Statistical static timing analysis Timing attack, a type of side channel attack on a cryptosystem This disambiguation...
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Internet. He pioneered the field of side-channel attacks, including the development of timing attacks that can break implementations of RSA, DSA and fixed-exponent...
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attempts to push KSM to advance the timing of the crashes. In September of 2000, he urged KSM to tell Atta to attack immediately to respond to the Sharon...
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Song, Dawn; Wagner, David A.; Tian, Xuqing (2001). "Timing Analysis of Keystrokes and Timing Attacks on SSH" (PDF). Tenth USENIX Security Symposium. Brands...
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Power analysis (category Side-channel attacks)
false; } } return true; } This password check potentially contains a Timing attack, since the execution time is not constant. Observing the power consumption...
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Meltdown (security vulnerability) (redirect from Meltdown attack)
website by security researcher Anders Fogh outlined the use of a cache timing attack to read kernel space data by observing the results of speculative operations...
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variant of the Lucky Thirteen attack against s2n, even though s2n included countermeasures intended to prevent timing attacks. In response, Amazon's s2n...
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speculation can leave traces in the cache, which attackers use to extract data using a timing attack, similar to side-channel exploitation of Spectre...
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Hertzbleed (category Side-channel attacks)
hardware security attack which describes exploiting dynamic frequency scaling to reveal secret data. The attack is a kind of timing attack, bearing similarity...
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Threefish uses no S-boxes or other table lookups in order to avoid cache timing attacks; its nonlinearity comes from alternating additions with exclusive ORs...
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demonstrated that a malicious thread on a Pentium 4 can use a timing-based side-channel attack to monitor the memory access patterns of another thread with...
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Fingerprint (computing) Side-channel attack Power analysis Electromagnetic attack Acoustic cryptanalysis Timing attack Supply chain security List of computer...
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The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Empire of Japan on the United States Pacific Fleet at its naval base at Pearl Harbor on...
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