Glossary: Cloud and Data Security
Timing attack
Also written: timing
Working out a secret by measuring how long a system takes to answer each guess. Comparing tokens with hmac.compare_digest, which always takes the same time, stops it.
Glossary: Cloud and Data Security
Also written: timing
Working out a secret by measuring how long a system takes to answer each guess. Comparing tokens with hmac.compare_digest, which always takes the same time, stops it.