CacheBleed: OpenSSL side-channel attack on modular exponentiation (CVE-2016-0702)
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Overview
CacheBleed is an architecture-specific, side-channel timing attack against OpenSSL targeting cache-bank conflicts to potentially recover RSA private keys from an adjacent process.
Background
A side-channel attack was found that makes use of cache-bank conflicts on the Intel Sandy-Bridge microarchitecture. An attacker who has the ability to control code in a th...
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