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Re:Everything you need to know about cryptography in 1 hour by mukyu on Friday May 14, 2010 @01:31PM (#1347941)
Timing attacks like this have been successfully used against a few gaming consoles.
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Re:Everything you need to know about cryptography in 1 hour by NateLawson on Friday May 14, 2010 @03:35PM (#1348327)
In particular, a memcmp()-style timing attack was successful against the Xbox360 CPU. This is a multi-Ghz processor.
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