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Tick Tock: Building Browser Red Pills from Timing Side Channels

Tick Tock: Building Browser Red Pills from Timing Side Channels (Paper)

Grant Ho, Dan Boneh, Lucas Ballard and Niels Provos · USENIX

Uses JavaScript timing ratios for DOM, storage, worker and graphics operations to distinguish tested virtual machines from physical hosts. A malicious site could withhold payloads from virtualized browser inspection without plugins or privileged instructions. The experiments cover two physical machines and a limited environment matrix, not a universal classifier.

Record

Document

Tick Tock: Building Browser Red Pills from Timing Side Channels (Paper)

Researcher

Grant Ho, Dan Boneh, Lucas Ballard and Niels Provos

Published by

USENIX

Format

Whitepaper

Topic

Browser

In the archive

• Collected in the 2014 research round

Related sources

• Tick Tock: Building Browser Red Pills from Timing Side Channels (Slides) Slides
• Conference recording

Tags

• timing-attack
• browser-fingerprinting
• evasion

This page is the archive's own catalogue record. The research is the work of Grant Ho, Dan Boneh, Lucas Ballard and Niels Provos, first published at the original source. Preserved copies are kept so the citation survives its host; this one was last captured on 29 September 2026.