[45380] in Cypherpunks
Question about the Timing Attack
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James Black)
Thu Dec 14 11:10:36 1995
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1995 10:51:04 -0500 (EST)
From: James Black <black@eng.usf.edu>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Hello,
I have looked over the paper, but I will look more closely this weekend
(finals going on right now).
The main question I have, since my programs run over a network with
dumb terminals is this: If someone can get the timing information why
would they need it, since they can read the message. So how can this
attacker get the timing info without being able to read the message
(unencrypted)?
Thanx.
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James Black (Comp Sci/Comp Eng sophomore)
e-mail: black@eng.usf.edu
http://www.eng.usf.edu/~black/index.html
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