Algorithmic attacks and timing leaks in distributed systems

An important class of remotely applicable security attacks concerns time. You can attack somebody by making their algorithms run in their worst-case behavior rather than common-case behavior. Likewise, the processing time can disclose a secret. If an attacker can observe the time it takes for somebo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Crosby, Scott A.
Other Authors: Wallach, Dan S.
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: 2009
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1911/17765