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WhiteBlueSkies
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WhiteBlueSkies
4y ago
If you could measure the time granularly as a client requesting some resource on the server how exactly would you know the time corresponds to the comparison and not to some tangential task?
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4y ago
Can someone explain how this works: "Assume the attacker can tell how long it takes for mac == computedMac to run. If the first byte of an attacker-chosen mac is wrong for the attacker-chosen message, the loop terminates after just one