Re: Thomas Ptacek and Wikipedia

[coderman <coderman () gmail com>]

On Dec 15, 2007 2:51 PM, coderman <coderman () gmail com> wrote:
> ... "I don't think this is a timing attack; it's a side-channel
> attack that exploits the fact that OpenSSL's impact on the branch
> prediction cache leaks information."

someone says to me, "Branch Prediction Analysis side channel attacks
are not traditional timing attacks".

sure, not _traditional_ timing attack.  active interference for
targeted misses gives much more key than traditional passive timing.

but this is still a timing attack, even if one much more effective
than most.  someone is now informed.

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