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time_trial

Time Trial - A tool for performing feasibility analyses of timing attacks

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Time Trial - A tool for performing feasibility analyses of timing attacks

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Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Observed mentions: 2014-11-29 04:32:42 UTC to 2014-12-24 01:55:45 UTC.

012014-11-29 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-11-30 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsNov 292014-11-30 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-12-02 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-12-02 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-12-03 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-12-03 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-12-04 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-12-04 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-12-05 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-12-05 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-12-06 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-12-06 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-12-07 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-12-07 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-12-08 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-12-08 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-12-09 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-12-09 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-12-10 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-12-10 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-12-11 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-12-11 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-12-12 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsDec 112014-12-12 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-12-13 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-12-13 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-12-14 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-12-14 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-12-15 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-12-15 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-12-16 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-12-16 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-12-17 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-12-17 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-12-18 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-12-18 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-12-19 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-12-19 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-12-20 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-12-20 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-12-21 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-12-21 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-12-22 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-12-22 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-12-23 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-12-23 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-12-24 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-12-24 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-12-25 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsDec 24

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jerematasno·Dec 24, 2014
Link is four oh four, but I assume you're talking about a string comparison timing attack? Those don't really work over a network on modern hardware. Most string comparison functions actually compare words (8 bytes), and string comparison increases faster over the years than network latency. For more info see the Time Trial paper by Daniel Mayer and Joel Sandin ( https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-14/materials/us-14-Mayer-Ti... / http://matasano.com/research/TimeTrial.pdf / https://github.com/dmayer/time_trial )
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