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Cryptographic attack
In cryptography, a timing attack is a side-channel attack in which the attacker attempts to compromise a cryptosystem by analyzing the time taken to execute
Timing_attack
Class of cybersecurity attacks
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_timing_attack
Type of cryptographic timing attack
A Lucky Thirteen attack is a cryptographic timing attack against implementations of the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol that use the CBC mode
Lucky_Thirteen_attack
Any attack based on information gained from the implementation of a computer system
security, a side-channel attack is a type of security exploit that uses information inadvertently leaked by a system—such as timing, power consumption, or
Side-channel_attack
Standard for the encryption of electronic data
Bernstein announced a cache-timing attack that he used to break a custom server that used OpenSSL's AES encryption. The attack required over 200 million
Advanced_Encryption_Standard
Algorithm for public-key cryptography
ciphertext, and so the timing attack fails. In 1998, Daniel Bleichenbacher described the first practical adaptive chosen-ciphertext attack against RSA-encrypted
RSA_cryptosystem
Dawn Xiaodong; Wagner, David; Tian, Xuqing (2001), "Timing analysis of keystrokes and timing attacks on SSH" (PDF), Proceedings of the 10th Conference on
Computer security compromised by hardware failure
Computer_security_compromised_by_hardware_failure
Processor security vulnerability
side-channel through which an attacker may be able to extract information about the private data using a timing attack. In addition to vulnerabilities
Spectre (security vulnerability)
Spectre_(security_vulnerability)
Augmented password-authenticated key exchange protocol
PARASITE, a paper in which they demonstrate practical exploitation of a timing attack over the network. This exploits non-constant implementations of modular
Secure Remote Password protocol
Secure_Remote_Password_protocol
Cryptographic protocols for securing data in transit
can be attacked with the Lucky Thirteen attack if the library is not written carefully to eliminate timing side channels. The Sweet32 attack breaks block
Transport_Layer_Security
Class of web security attacks
well-known cross-site leaks are timing attacks, which depend on timing events within the web browser. For example, cache-timing attacks rely on the web cache to
Cross-site_leaks
Where a clock does not run at same rate as reference clock
to build random number generators. These can however be exploited by timing attacks. Everyday clocks such as wristwatches have finite precision. Eventually
Clock_drift
Cryptographic algorithm for digital signatures
that authenticates with Elliptic Curves DSA over a binary field via a timing attack. The vulnerability was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0e. In August 2013, it was
Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm
Elliptic_Curve_Digital_Signature_Algorithm
Authenticated encryption mode
on a number of platforms. Käsper and Schwabe described a "Faster and Timing-Attack Resistant AES-GCM" that achieves 10.68 cycles per byte of AES-GCM authenticated
Galois/Counter_Mode
Israeli–American professor
"partially homomorphic cryptosystem". Timing attacks are a type of side-channel attack that allows an adversary to attack a security system by studying now
Dan_Boneh
Process failure in machinery or computing
"Computing in the Presence of Timing Failures" (PDF). Retrieved 2025-04-11. Wright, Gavin (2023-11-28). "What is a timing attack?". Search Security. Retrieved
Timing_failure
Hardware security attack
hardware security attack which describes exploiting dynamic frequency scaling to reveal secret data. The attack is a kind of timing attack, bearing similarity
Hertzbleed
Web security attack
In cybersecurity, pixel stealing attacks are a group of timing side-channel attacks that allow cross-origin websites to infer how a particular pixel is
Pixel_stealing_attack
American cryptographer and entrepreneur (born 1973)
Internet. He pioneered the field of side-channel attacks, including the development of timing attacks that can break implementations of RSA, DSA and fixed-exponent
Paul_Carl_Kocher
Topics referred to by the same term
synchronous digital circuit Dynamic timing analysis Statistical static timing analysis Timing attack, a type of side channel attack on a cryptosystem This disambiguation
Timing_analysis
Microprocessor security vulnerability
website by security researcher Anders Fogh outlined the use of a cache timing attack to read kernel space data by observing the results of speculative operations
Meltdown (security vulnerability)
Meltdown_(security_vulnerability)
Block cipher
Threefish uses no S-boxes or other table lookups in order to avoid cache timing attacks; its nonlinearity comes from alternating additions with exclusive ORs
Threefish
Form of message tampering
real-world attacks, the response packet sent by the attacker can be used to place malware on the victim's computer. The need for a timing advantage makes
Man-on-the-side_attack
Process of intercepting and examining messages
therefore, the attacker can link the flows in one side to the other side of the network and break the anonymity of it. It is shown, although timing noise is
Traffic_analysis
Communications protocol
researchers from Royal Holloway, University of London discovered a timing attack which allowed them to recover (parts of the) plaintext from a DTLS connection
Datagram Transport Layer Security
Datagram_Transport_Layer_Security
Proof-of-concept virtual machine-based rootkit
dismissed the concept as implausible. Virtualization could be detected by a timing attack relying on external sources of time. In 2007, a group of researchers
Blue_Pill_(software)
Practice and study of secure communication techniques
Song, Dawn; Wagner, David A.; Tian, Xuqing (2001). "Timing Analysis of Keystrokes and Timing Attacks on SSH" (PDF). Tenth USENIX Security Symposium. Brands
Cryptography
1941 Japanese attack on the US
leadership referred to the attack as the Hawaii Operation and Operation AI, and as Operation Z during its planning. The attack on Pearl Harbor was preceded
Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor
Security architecture implemented in hardware
Fingerprint (computing) Side-channel attack Power analysis Electromagnetic attack Acoustic cryptanalysis Timing attack Supply chain security List of computer
Hardware_security
Open-source implementation of TLS
variant of the Lucky Thirteen attack against s2n, even though s2n included countermeasures intended to prevent timing attacks. In response, Amazon's s2n
S2n-tls
Instruction set architecture extension
feature on affected CPUs via a microcode update. In 2016, a side-channel timing attack was found by abusing the way TSX/TSX-NI handles transactional faults
Transactional Synchronization Extensions
Transactional_Synchronization_Extensions
Proprietary simultaneous multithreading implementation by Intel
demonstrated that a malicious thread on a Pentium 4 can use a timing-based side-channel attack to monitor the memory access patterns of another thread with
Hyper-threading
Form of message tampering
Benjamin; Hamilton, Geoff (2009). "Detecting Man-in-the-Middle Attacks by Precise Timing" (PDF). 2009 Third International Conference on Emerging Security
Man-in-the-middle_attack
Cryptographic secret, not public in contrast to salt
pepper should not be tested in a fixed order known to an attacker, otherwise a timing attack may reveal the pepper. If the password is correct, the correct
Pepper_(cryptography)
Form of side channel attack
false; } } return true; } This password check potentially contains a Timing attack, since the execution time is not constant. Observing the power consumption
Power_analysis
Computer security vulnerability utilizing branch prediction
speculation can leave traces in the cache. Attackers can then extract these artifacts using a timing attack, similar to side-channel exploitation of Spectre
SWAPGS (security vulnerability)
SWAPGS_(security_vulnerability)
Linux distribution for Xbox 360 consoles
greater than the last of the two exploitable Kernels by means of a timing attack. There are presently no audio drivers written to support the console's
Free60
Security feature in web browsers
Spectre and Meltdown group of timing attacks that relied on the victim address space being on the same process as the attacker process. In March 2021, the
Site_isolation
Open-source TLS and cryptography library
AlFardan and Kenny Paterson disclosed the "Lucky Thirteen attack" (CVE-2013-0169), a timing attack against CBC-mode cipher suites in SSL, TLS, and DTLS that
OpenSSL
Cryptographic attacks on Apple Silicon CPUs
memory access timings to exfiltrate data from those algorithms using timing attacks. The authors of GoFetch state that they were unable to make their exploit
GoFetch
Cryptography attack
prevent the decryption software from acting as an oracle, but newer attacks based on timing have repeatedly revived this oracle. TLS 1.2 introduces a number
Padding_oracle_attack
Kernel feature to share memory pages between multiple processes or virtualised guests
information via timing attacks Allows contamination of cryptographic resources in other virtualized guests via the memory row hammer attack Data deduplication
Kernel_same-page_merging
Unique identifier assigned to network interfaces
may allow an attacker to track a device even if its MAC address is changed, for instance its probe requests' other elements, or their timing. If random
MAC_address
Text on kenjutsu and the martial arts in general
strategy to timing with your skill, in that one must know when to attack and when not to attack. In The Book of Five Rings he writes on timing: Timing is important
The_Book_of_Five_Rings
Transfer of information within a process
into the side channel category. For example, in the timing attack or in the power analysis attack, the system leaks information through, respectively
Information flow (information theory)
Information_flow_(information_theory)
Islamist terrorist attack in Indian-administered Kashmir
The 2025 Pahalgam attack, also referred to as the 2025 Pahalgam massacre, was an Islamist terrorist attack on tourists by three armed terrorists near Pahalgam
2025_Pahalgam_attack
Research field that lies at the intersection of machine learning and computer security
(image cloaking software) Kianpour, Mazaher; Wen, Shao-Fang (2020). "Timing Attacks on Machine Learning: State of the Art". Intelligent Systems and Applications
Adversarial_machine_learning
Computer science topic
adds an additional code path and presents an opportunity for timing analysis and attack, which is often not acceptable in high-integrity software. In
Bitwise_operation
Scripting language created in 1994
hashes were compared. The recommended way is to use hash_equals() (for timing attack safety), strcmp or the identity operator (===), as '0e1234' === '0'
PHP
Computing without having input or output
operation would not be able to make use of this information (by applying timing attacks RSA is known to be vulnerable to) as they does not know the constant
Blinding_(cryptography)
American cryptographer
the best paper award at the USENIX Security conference. His work on a Timing attack against RSA. The work was able to recover the factors of a 1024-bit
David_Brumley
hardware and software and run in constant time, making them safe from timing attacks in common implementations. The basic idea of rotational cryptanalysis
Rotational_cryptanalysis
Authenticated encryption with associated data algorithm
vulnerable to timing attacks. To be noted, when the SSH protocol uses ChaCha20-Poly1305 as underlying primitive, it is vulnerable to the Terrapin attack. Authenticated
ChaCha20-Poly1305
2019 terrorist attacks in New Zealand
successfully live-streamed far-right terror attack, and had published a manifesto online before the attack. On 26 March 2020, he pleaded guilty to 51 murders
Christchurch_mosque_shootings
Line of CPUs produced by Intel
exploiting process is not intended to be able to access as a form of timing attack.[citation needed] Comet Lake is Intel's codename for the fourth 14 nm
Intel_Core
Arithmetic in a field with a finite number of elements
microprocessors leads to variable timing for memory access. This can lead to implementations that are vulnerable to a timing attack. For binary fields GF(2n)
Finite_field_arithmetic
Post-quantum signature scheme
GALACTICS have shown vulnerabilities to a number of side-channel and timing attacks. Lower Rejection Rate: As a Fiat-Shamir lattice signature scheme, BLISS
BLISS_signature_scheme
Free and open-source anonymity network based on onion routing
Reporting from Motherboard found that the timing and nature of the relay early traffic confirmation attack matched the description in the court documents
Tor_(network)
1987 ETA attack in Barcelona, Spain
injured 45, the deadliest attack in ETA's history. Controversy surrounded the timing of telephone warnings made before the attack and the authorities' response
Hipercor_bombing
Network service attack performed by multiple fake identities
node-voting consensus. Attackers cannot amplify influence by spawning fake identities, as security relies on broadcast timing and verifiable transfers
Sybil_attack
Computing concept
kernel generates entropy from keyboard timings, mouse movements, and integrated drive electronics (IDE) timings and makes the random character data available
Entropy_(computing)
channel attacks Power analysis Timing attack Cold boot attack Differential fault analysis Network attacks Man-in-the-middle attack Replay attack External
Outline_of_cryptography
Low-level programming language family
that must always take strictly the same time to execute, preventing timing attacks. Video encoders and decoders such as rav1e (an encoder for AV1) and
Assembly_language
Side-channel attack exploiting sound
Shamir and Eran Tromer demonstrated that it may be possible to conduct timing attacks against a CPU performing cryptographic operations by analyzing variations
Acoustic_cryptanalysis
Methods of safely sharing general data
vulnerabilities: Subtle algorithmic or analytical mistakes. Timing side-channel attacks. In contrast with timing attacks against implementations of cryptographic algorithms
Differential_privacy
Cryptographic attack on the ssh protocol
developers have stated that the major impact of the attack is the capability to degrade the keystroke timing obfuscation features of SSH. The designers of SSH
Terrapin_attack
Mathematical operation on points on an elliptic curve
is likely to face the threat of the so-called timing attacks which exploits the data-dependent timing characteristics of the implementation. Machines
Elliptic curve point multiplication
Elliptic_curve_point_multiplication
2015 Islamist terror attacks in France
elections would start only weeks after the Paris attacks, she was thought to be getting dividends from the timing, when the fear of terrorism was still very
November_2015_Paris_attacks
Cryptanalytic method for unauthorized users to access data
In cryptography, a brute-force attack or exhaustive key search is a cryptanalytic attack that consists of an attacker submitting many possible keys or
Brute-force_attack
Estimate of time taken for running an algorithm
algorithms are especially significant in contexts like cryptography, where timing attacks can exploit variations in execution time. By designing algorithms that
Time_complexity
Attack by Al-Shabaab, Somali Islamist insurgents on 5 January 2020
first al-Shabaab targeting of US military personnel in Kenya. The timing of the attack coincided with recent Iranian threats of retaliation to target US
Camp_Simba_attack
warning of the crucial necessity of the timing, the message wasn't delivered to Hull until over an hour after the attack started. The United States had decrypted
Prelude to the attack on Pearl Harbor
Prelude_to_the_attack_on_Pearl_Harbor
American musician (born 1990)
is best known as the former clean vocalist and rhythm guitarist of Attack Attack!. He departed the band in 2010, and formed a new group called The March
Johnny_Franck
cryptography • Time/memory/data tradeoff attack • Time-based One-time Password algorithm (TOTP) • Timing attack • Tiny Encryption Algorithm • Tom Berson
Index of cryptography articles
Index_of_cryptography_articles
Method of virtual memory management
to timing attacks; see Percival, Colin (2005-05-13). Cache missing for fun and profit (PDF). BSDCan 2005. (specifically the virtual memory attack in section
Demand_paging
Block cipher
implementation would be required to protect against side-channel attacks, especially timing attacks. Although DFC was designed using Vaudenay's decorrelation
DFC_(cipher)
Finnish cryptographer
Shiho; Kaneko, Toshinobu (1998), "Improving the higher order differential attack and cryptanalysis of the KN cipher", in Okamoto, Eiji; Davida, George; Mambo
Kaisa_Nyberg
Type of cipher
constant time, and therefore are immune to timing attacks. The rotational cryptanalysis technique attempts to attack such round functions. Other operations
Block_cipher
Class of attacks tracking web browser history
researchers at the University of California, San Diego demonstrated timing attacks that could bypass the mitigations introduced by Mozilla. By abusing
History_sniffing
22nd episode of the 4th season of Farscape
"Bad Timing" is the series finale of the Australian-American television series Farscape, written by David Kemper and directed by Andrew Prowse. The Moya
Bad_Timing_(Farscape)
Routing protocol
defense can be observed. An attacker may also look into other timing attacks other than inter-packet intervals. The attacker can actively modify packet
Mix_network
Random number generator
data-dependent execution paths. This is done to prevent side-channel attacks such as timing attacks and power analysis. This is an improvement compared to earlier
Yarrow_algorithm
2013 terrorist attack in Nairobi, Kenya
Jazeera that the attack was in retaliation for Kenyan troops entering Somalia and that the timing was deliberately chosen to be a surprise attack. al-Shabaab
Westgate_shopping_mall_attack
Family of block ciphers
to cache-timing attacks. This contrasts with ciphers that use lookup tables such as AES, which have been shown to be vulnerable to such attacks. However
Speck_(cipher)
Cyberattack involving counterfeit packets
counterfeit packets with the RST bit set, a TCP reset attack. Theoretically, other information such as timing differences or information from lower protocol
TCP sequence prediction attack
TCP_sequence_prediction_attack
Failed terrorist attack in Barcelona, Spain
to the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, with the timing determined by al Qaeda making political demands through Taliban leader Baitullah
2008_Barcelona_terror_plot
General form of cryptanalysis applicable primarily to block ciphers
resistant to this attack and many including the Advanced Encryption Standard, have been proven secure against the attack. The attack relies primarily on
Differential_cryptanalysis
Conventional static timing analysis (STA) has been a stock analysis algorithm for the design of digital circuits for a long time. However the increased
Statistical static timing analysis
Statistical_static_timing_analysis
Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor took place on December 7, 1941. The United States military suffered 19 ships damaged or sunk, and 2,403 people were killed
Consequences of the attack on Pearl Harbor
Consequences_of_the_attack_on_Pearl_Harbor
Stream ciphers
words. Using only add-rotate-xor operations avoids the possibility of timing attacks in software implementations. The internal state is made of sixteen 32-bit
Salsa20
1999 mass shooting in Colorado, U.S.
roughly a year, intended the attack to be primarily a bombing and only secondarily a shooting. The pair launched a shooting attack after the homemade bombs
Columbine High School massacre
Columbine_High_School_massacre
Feistel network based block cipher
Informational. General Xin-jie Zhao; Tao Wang; Yuan-yuan Zheng (2009). "Cache Timing Attacks on Camellia Block Cipher" (PDF). IACR. pp. 1–18. Retrieved 2013-01-14
Camellia_(cipher)
Linux kernel patch protecting against cold boot attacks
accessible using the host system. TRESOR is resistant to timing attacks and cache-based attacks by design of the AES-NI instruction, where the CPU supports
TRESOR
2022 shooting of electrical substations in North Carolina, USA
still have no evidence specifically tying the attack to the contemporaneous drag show, but the timing of the two incidents, as well as a general growth
Moore County substation attack
Moore_County_substation_attack
Means of compromising computer security by restarting the computer
security, a cold boot attack (or to a lesser extent, a platform reset attack) is a type of side channel attack in which an attacker with physical access
Cold_boot_attack
S. troops killed". CBS News. Shalev, Tal (28 February 2026). "Timing of US-Israel attack on Iran bears symbolic meaning in Judaism". CNN. Retrieved 28
Timeline_of_the_2026_Iran_war
Type of cryptographic attack
cryptography, the Davies attack is a dedicated statistical cryptanalysis method for attacking the Data Encryption Standard (DES). The attack was originally created
Davies_attack
Use of computer hardware to assist software in the process of data encryption
(supposedly) secure hardware – a large class of method used is the timing attack. This is far more problematic to solve than a software bug, even within
Hardware-based_encryption
that the United States had not confirmed its participation, and that the timing and venue for the next round remained unconfirmed. The negotiations were
2025–2026 Iran–United States negotiations
2025–2026_Iran–United_States_negotiations
Algorithm for fast exponentiation
is not yet protected against cache timing attacks: memory access latencies might still be observable to an attacker, as different variables are accessed
Exponentiation_by_squaring
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Boy/Male
Arabic, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Telugu
Large Fish; Born Near the Sea
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Reading 2.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Leeming.
Surname or Lastname
English and German
English and German : variant spelling of Hemming.
Boy/Male
Norse
Father of Thord.
Female
Persian/Iranian
(سیمین) Persian name SIMIN means "silvery."
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name for someone from a place called Fyning in Rogate in Sussex.
Surname or Lastname
English (chiefly West Midlands)
English (chiefly West Midlands) : variant spelling of Timmons.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from Twyning in Gloucestershire, which was originally named with Old English betwēonan ‘between’ + ēam, dative of ēa ‘river’, with the ending later being assimilated to -ingas ‘inhabitants’, ‘people’.
Girl/Female
Indian
Glad tidings, Good news, Good tiding
Girl/Female
Indian
Glad tidings, Good news, Good tiding
Girl/Female
Muslim
Glad tidings, Good news, Good tiding
Boy/Male
Hindu
Large fish
Girl/Female
Hindu
Calm, Constant
Girl/Female
Muslim
Glad tidings, Good news, Good tiding
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from a medieval personal name, originally an Old English patronymic from a personal name or byname Tippa, for which there is evidence in place names such as Tiptree, but which is of uncertain origin.
Male
Greek
(Τίμων) Greek name derived from the word time, TIMON means "honor."
Male
English
 Alternate spelling of the English surname Deeming, DEMING means "act of judging." Compare with another form of Deming.
Female
Finnish
Short form of Finnish Kristiina, TIINA means "Christian."
Boy/Male
Hindu
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Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Lemon.Scottish : variant of Lamont.
Boy/Male
Muslim
There have been several men of this name, There were grammarians of this name in the 8th / 9th century
Boy/Male
Hindu
Brave Man
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from a medieval personal name, a pet form of Hobb, a pet form of Robert (see Hobbs). This form is also common in Wales.
Male
Egyptian
, Horus, the winged disk of the sun.
Girl/Female
Tamil
Kalavathi | கலாவதீ
Artistic or Goddess Parvati
Boy/Male
Indian, Punjabi, Sikh
Strong; Brave
Girl/Female
English Irish
Feminine manly.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant spelling of Granger.
Boy/Male
Afghan, Arabic, Celebrity, Indian, Muslim, Sindhi, Traditional, Turkish
Name of a King; Winner; Successful; A Classy Stone; Turquoise Color
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a.
Giving life or spirit; having power to give life; inspiriting; invigorating.
n.
The act of furnishing with, or taking, arms.
n.
A fragment or particle rubbed off by the act of filing; as, iron filings.
n.
Approach; advent; manifestation; as, the coming of the train.
a.
That dives or is used or diving.
n.
The act of hiding or concealing, or of withholding from view or knowledge; concealment.
n.
Meal-taking; dining or supping.
n.
The act of rising or coming into view.
n.
Power of continuing life; the act of living, or living comfortably.
n.
Manner of life; as, riotous living; penurious living; earnest living.
n.
A tiring-room.
a.
Of or pertaining to mines; as, mining engineer; mining machinery; a mining region.
n.
An exposure to air, or to a fire, for warming, drying, etc.; as, the airing of linen, or of a room.
n.
The state of being pleasing; a suiting. See On liking, below.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Time
n.
The act of one who lines; the act or process of making lines, or of inserting a lining.
n.
The process of fining or refining; clarification; also (Metal.), the conversion of cast iron into suitable for puddling, in a hearth or charcoal fire.
p. a.
Looking; appearing; as, better or worse liking. See Like, to look.
a.
Approaching; of the future, especially the near future; the next; as, the coming week or year; the coming exhibition.
n.
The state of being pleased with, or attracted toward, some thing or person; hence, inclination; desire; pleasure; preference; -- often with for, formerly with to; as, it is an amusement I have no liking for.