Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10340115 | Computer Networks | 2005 | 16 Pages |
Abstract
Timing attacks are usually used to attack weak computing devices such as smartcards. We show that timing attacks apply to general software systems. Specifically, we devise a timing attack against OpenSSL. Our experiments show that we can extract private keys from an OpenSSL-based web server running on a machine in the local network. Our results demonstrate that timing attacks against network servers are practical and therefore security systems should defend against them.
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Authors
David Brumley, Dan Boneh,