Timing Cryptanalysis Attack
Peter Monta
pmonta at qualcomm.com
Mon Dec 11 21:05:05 PST 1995
Matt Blaze writes:
> Of course, this works against a remote adversary, but not against one
> on the same machine who can look at actual CPU consumption (which doesn't
> increase when the target is blocked).
Maybe this is a good reason to spinwait, rather than sleep, until
the timer expires. It would be pretty subtle to distinguish that
from "real" computation.
Peter Monta
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