[45209] in Cypherpunks
Re: Timing Attacks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Mon Dec 11 22:12:13 1995
To: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
Cc: "Rev. Ben" <samman-ben@cs.yale.edu>, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 11 Dec 1995 16:25:05 PST."
<199512120026.QAA19309@ix12.ix.netcom.com>
Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 20:11:33 -0500
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Bill Stewart writes:
> The attack also works better if you can try it multiple times with the same
> numbers to work around random latency; the lowest number is closest to real.
Other statistical techniques can be used to get around random network
latency. Anyone who's used NTP is aware of the possibilities...
.pm
