[Resource Topic] 2016/224: CacheBleed: A Timing Attack on OpenSSL Constant Time RSA

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Title:
CacheBleed: A Timing Attack on OpenSSL Constant Time RSA

Authors: Yuval Yarom, Daniel Genkin, Nadia Heninger

Abstract:

The scatter-gather technique is a commonly-implemented approach to prevent cache-based timing attacks. In this paper we show that scatter-gather is not constant-time. We implement a cache timing attack against the scatter-gather implementation used in the modular exponentiation routine in OpenSSL version 1.0.2f. Our attack exploits cache-bank conflicts on the Sandy Bridge microarchitecture. We have tested the attack on an Intel Xeon E5-2430 processor. For 4096-bit RSA our attack can fully recover the private key after observing 16,000 decryptions.

ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/224

Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fjz4dkU2N3g

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