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>Are crypto systems that always wait a full second using system timers, for example, immune to this sort of thing No. Such a crypto system would still leak inf
by syrrim 4y ago
>Are crypto systems that always wait a full second using system timers, for example, immune to this sort of thing
No. Such a crypto system would still leak information via the amount of power it consumes, which might change the frequency of the cpu, which could be measured by an attacker through the other processes of the computer.
- sam0x17 4y agoah ok I was assuming over public internet timing attacks. This requires local hardware access or a local ssh account. Got it