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Cache-timing attacks rely on the ability to infer hits and misses in shared caches on the web platform. [54] One of the first instances of a cache-timing attack involved the making of a cross-origin request to a page and then probing for the existence of the resources loaded by the request in the shared HTTP and the DNS cache.
Exploiting a TOCTOU race condition requires precise timing to ensure that the attacker's operations interleave properly with the victim's. In the example above, the attacker must execute the symlink system call precisely between the access and open. For the most general attack, the attacker must be scheduled for execution after each operation ...
Cache timing attacks also known as Cache attacks are a type of side-channel attack that allows attackers to gain information about a system purely by tracking cache access made by the victim system in a shared environment.
In 2002 and 2003, Yukiyasu Tsunoo and colleagues from NEC showed how to attack MISTY and DES symmetric key ciphers, respectively. In 2005, Daniel Bernstein from the University of Illinois, Chicago reported an extraction of an OpenSSL AES key via a cache timing attack, and Colin Percival had a working attack on the OpenSSL RSA key using the Intel processor's cache.
Timing attacks are a type of side-channel attack that allows an adversary to attack a security system by studying now long it takes to perform certain calculations. In 2003, Boneh (with David Brumley) proposed one of the first practical timing attacks on OpenSSL that worked over the Internet. He then later showed how to extend the attack, "show ...
One of the earliest known instances of a pixel-stealing attack was described by Paul Stone in a white paper presented at the Black Hat Briefings conference in 2013. [6] Stone's approach exploited a quirk in how browsers rendered images encoded in the SVG format.
The need for a timing advantage makes the attack difficult to execute, as it requires a privileged position in the network, for example on the internet backbone. [2] Potentially, this class of attack may be performed within a local network (assuming a privileged position), research has shown that it has been successful within critical ...
Meet-in-the-middle attack; Mod-n cryptanalysis; Related-key attack; Slide attack; XSL attack; Hash functions: Birthday attack; Attack models. Chosen-ciphertext; Chosen-plaintext; Ciphertext-only; Known-plaintext; Side channel attacks. Power analysis; Timing attack; Cold boot attack; Differential fault analysis; Network attacks Man-in-the-middle ...