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Remote timing attacks are practical

2005; Elsevier BV; Volume: 48; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.comnet.2005.01.010

1872-7069

David Brumley, Dan Boneh,

Advanced Malware Detection Techniques

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.