side channel attack based on the different speed at which certain operations are executed.
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Potential vulnerability in DH key selection - am I understanding this right?
I'm reading through a DH implementation, and I think I found a potential hole.
Public $p$ and $g$ values are properly selected.
A candidate secret value $\bar a$ is pseudo-randomly selected such ...
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Stopping timing attacks on AES: Why is it important to prevent the OS from interrupting the AES computation?
I read the paper Cache-timing attacks on AES (by Daniel J. Bernstein), but I don't seem to understand everything. The author dedicates a long section on how to prevent the OS to interrupt an AES ...
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AES timing attacks
I'm just interested in cryptography, so please don't expect me to be an expert. ;) I recently read about AES cache timing attacks and found it very interesting. I read the article Cache-timing attacks ...
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Attack vectors introduced by compilers
I have a question about attacks on the
implementation of cryptographic code that are enabled by compilation and compiler-optimisations. I am aware of this. Would
anyone be able to point me to other ...
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Are more complex algorithms easier to break with timing attacks?
Is there a point where increasing the complexity of an encryption algorithm will make it easier to break using a timing attack?
Or is there no connection here at all?
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Known methods for constant time (table-free) AES implementation using 'standard' operations?
There are several known methods for implementing AES in constant time using SIMD operations, mostly based around fast byte shuffling (for instance Hamburg and Kasper/Schwabe). Are there any similar ...
