full-disclosure - Re: Thomas Ptacek and Wikipedia

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Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 23:29:07 -0800
From: coderman <coderman@...il.com>
To: "Gobbles is back" <isbackgobbles@...glemail.com>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Thomas Ptacek and Wikipedia

On Dec 15, 2007 2:51 PM, coderman <coderman@...il.com> wrote:
> ... "I don't think this is a timing attack; it's a side-channel
> attack that exploits the fact that OpenSSL's impact on the branch
> prediction cache leaks information."

someone says to me, "Branch Prediction Analysis side channel attacks
are not traditional timing attacks".

sure, not _traditional_ timing attack.  active interference for
targeted misses gives much more key than traditional passive timing.

but this is still a timing attack, even if one much more effective
than most.  someone is now informed.

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