Collected research

Side Channel Attacks in SSL

Side Channel Attacks in SSL ha.ckers.org web application security lab

A short pointer post flagging the Microsoft Research and Indiana University paper on side-channel leaks in encrypted web traffic, which pre-empted a Black Hat talk. It sketches the author's own angle: HTML loading scripts, CSS and images produces a chain of observable sub-requests a man in the middle can use to cut noise on the wire.

Record

Document

Side Channel Attacks in SSL ha.ckers.org web application security lab

Published by

ha.ckers.org

Topic

Crypto

In the archive

• Collected in the 2010 research round

Related sources

• Side-Channel Leaks in Web Applications: a Reality Today, a Challenge Tomorrow Whitepaper

Tags

• side-channel
• tls
• https
• info-leak
• http
• css
• owasp-a02-2021

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