Collected research

A Perfect CRIME? Only TIME Will Tell

Tal Be’ery and Amichai Shulman · Imperva

Extends compression-leak research in two separate demonstrations: browser JavaScript measures a one-byte request-size difference amplified at a TCP acknowledgement boundary, while response-length observations recover a Google Scholar user’s email address. Combining timing with compressed-response secret extraction is proposed as future work.

Record

Researcher

Tal Be’ery and Amichai Shulman

Published by

Imperva

Format

Whitepaper

Topic

Crypto

In the archive

• Collected in the 2013 research round

Tags

• timing-attack
• side-channel
• info-leak
• http
• tls
• javascript
• prior-art-extension
• owasp-a02-2021

This page is the archive's own catalogue record. The research is the work of Tal Be’ery and Amichai Shulman, first published at the original source. Preserved copies are kept so the citation survives its host; this one was last captured on 10 September 2026.