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Re:Remote Timing Attacks Are Practical by indygreg2 on Saturday July 23, 2011 @12:12PM (#2797141)
This was published in 2003: http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1251354

That doesn't change the importance of securing against timing side-channel attacks, however.

Re:Remote Timing Attacks Are Practical by tptacek on Saturday July 23, 2011 @02:56PM (#2797520)
In fact, the attacks have gotten much better since then; for instance, see Crosby & Wallach's paper on using statistical filters to establish nanosecond timing bounds on "local" (ie, cross-datacenter) networks:

http://www.cs.rice.edu/~dwallach/pub/crosby-timing2009.pdf