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by Kiro 4009 days ago
What does leaking timing information mean?
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Nate Lawson has a good explanation of timing attacks (against my own code): http://rdist.root.org/2009/05/28/timing-attack-in-google-key...
Response timing can be indicative of the key, especially if you have the crypto algorithm's code (source/IR/machine code).