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Position needed: Side-channel timing attack on dictionary #9

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Yoric opened this issue Dec 6, 2018 · 0 comments
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Position needed: Side-channel timing attack on dictionary #9

Yoric opened this issue Dec 6, 2018 · 0 comments
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Yoric commented Dec 6, 2018

Scenario

I can detect whether a dictionary A has been used by creating a script that uses dictionary A and timing whether A needs to be downloaded.

If A is a dictionary used by https://mypoliticalparty.example, I can detect (once) whether the user has recently visited that site.

Is it a problem?

We can pretty much do this already by timing the load of any js file from https://mypoliticalparty.example . I think it's exactly the same problem, so this is not a new privacy leak.

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