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Re: Timing Cryptanalysis Attack

To: [email protected], Tom Weinstein <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Timing Cryptanalysis Attack
From: Nathaniel Borenstein <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 06:55:27 -0500 (EST)
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Reply-To: Nathaniel Borenstein <[email protected]>
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Hey, don't go for constant time, that's too hard to get perfect.  Add a
*random* delay.  This particular crypto-flaw is pretty easy to fix. 
(See, I'm not *always* arguing the downside of cryptography!)

It is worth noting, however, the extent to which "secure" cryptographic
protocols keep needing to get fixed one last time....  -- Nathaniel
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