Re:Security Vulnerability in Browser Interface Allows Comput...
by redrabbyte on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @03:46PM
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concurrent work (https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2401/2401.04349.pdf) has shown website fingerprinting, recognizing something like the static login page of youtube/google/facebook etc is very much doable.
that said, I don't expect to see any of these attacks in the wild. they're primarily demonstrations of the technique and to show that the channel is there
as is often the case with side-channel attacks, a serious attacker would much more likely go for un-/recently patched traditional vulnerabilities
Even then, the best that I know of for password recovery from timing is "Timing Analysis of Keystrokes and Timing Attacks on SSH", which relies on having data about the user in advance, and they only manage to reduce the search space by about 50x. I'm sure the state of the art is probably a bit better, but that's still assuming a lot: key press timing (that's probably noisy) isn't going to be a meaningful attack vector for arbitrary users online.