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You can say the same thing about all of these attacks. That they are tedious ways of collecting data. The problem is that computers can be made to repeat operat

You can say the same thing about all of these attacks. That they are tedious ways of collecting data. The problem is that computers can be made to repeat operations, over and over again. Leaking keys fractional bit by bit or what it is. That's why the attack doesn't work against someone's laundry machine - unless it's connected to the internet, that is.

velcrovan 4y ago
This is the kind of exploit that might legitimately warrant the character-by-character “password slot machine” animation from movies like “War Games” (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PasswordSlotMachine https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PasswordSlotMach...)
- coredog64 4y ago
  If a string match isn’t done in constant time you could theoretically get your results character by character. (Top of mind because I just had to handle that case in a GH webhook)
- nmilo 4y ago
  Careful, you might lose an hour on that site.