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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