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by willvarfar 3647 days ago
Attacks only get better.
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Sometimes they stay at exactly the same level forever.
Its a classic quote from Bruce Schneier. I should have attributed it. I thought the crowd would get it.
While often attributed to Schneier, he attributes it to the NSA https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2011/08/new_attack_on...
It is, and will remain impossible to deduce a victims password from such a small timing sample.

There simply isn't enough data.

I do trust you aren't an Ebay security team? ;)

http://www.wired.com/2011/10/iphone-keylogger-spying/ etc.

>I do trust you aren't an Ebay security team? ;)

Luckily, not my kind of a gig.

>http://www.wired.com/2011/10/iphone-keylogger-spying/ etc.

This attack depends on being able to identify individual keys so it's not really applicable here. However, a similar attack might be possible here if not for the very small sample size.

It was guessing pairs of keys. But anyway.