Timing attacks against trusted path
Jonathan T. Trostle · 2002
Presents new attacks against a user workstation's trusted path mechanism. These timing attacks can cause a user's password to leak bits. The timing attacks can then be combined with network authentication protocol brute-force attacks against the remainder of the key space to obtain the user's password. We present several countermeasures against this attack. We also define a property of user systems (workstations) called Trojan horse non-persistence. Workstations that fail to have this properly are more vulnerable to the timing attack and other Trojan horse attacks.