Class: TimingAttack

•owl:Thing
        •Attack
                •Threat
        •Threat
                •Attack
                •Disclosure
                        •PassiveAttack
                •PassiveAttack
                        •Disclosure
                        •SideChannelAttack
                                •TimingAttack

Super Classes

SideChannelAttack

Annotations

dc:descriptionA timing attack is a form of side channel attack where the attacker tries to break a cryptosystem by analyzing the time taken to execute cryptographic algorithms. The attack exploits the fact that, particularly in asymmetric key algorithms, computation time for a private key operation is dependent on the key in some way. (Wikipedia) (Term also badly explained in ODotI)

Abstract Syntax

Class(TimingAttack partial SideChannelAttack)
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