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by anon1385 4304 days ago
For examples of real implementations of timing attacks, try this: http://www.contextis.com/documents/2/Browser_Timing_Attacks....

Some of those are fixed now, but the history stealing link redrawing one is still an issue as far as I know (or at least, this bug is still open https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=884270 ).

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Thanks, that's pretty awesome. However, I was talking about attacks relying on non-constant time memory copy or math function that is used to somehow defeat a server or cryptography.