Dragonblood is Still Leaking: Practical Cache-based Side-Channel in the Wild

Daniel De Almeida Braga, Pierre-Alain Fouque, Mohamed Sabt · Annual Computer Security Applications Conference · 2020

Recently, the Dragonblood attacks have attracted new interests on the security of WPA-3 implementation and in particular on the Dragonfly code deployed on many open-source libraries. One attack concerns the protection of users passwords during authentication. In the Password Authentication Key Exchange (PAKE) protocol called Dragonfly, the secret, namely the password, is mapped to an elliptic curve point. This operation is sensitive, as it involves the secret password, and therefore its resistance against side-channel attacks is of utmost importance. Following the initial disclosure of Dragonblood, we notice that this particular attack has been partially patched by only a few implementations.

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