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I love the way timing attacks seem so unlikely but actually easy ways to extract information. Everything about this attack is beautiful. A serious of seemingly
by aidos 13y ago
I love the way timing attacks seem so unlikely but actually easy ways to extract information.
Everything about this attack is beautiful. A serious of seemingly unrelated issues that don't appear like a problem from the outside but when combined produce a solid attack that you could roll out today.
Well worth reading through the whole article.
- jffry 13y agoA lot of security issues start at one seemingly innocuous little toehold and then use, abuse, and combine the hell out of it to do surprising and obviously-undesirable things with it. That's what I find so beautiful about this sort of hack.