[E-Lang] Timing Analysis of Keystrokes and Timing Attacks on SSH

[Ben Laurie]

Bill Frantz wrote:
> 
> This message just came forwarded to the cryptography mailing list.  I
> suspect that some of the techniques Song et. al. are using to attack SSH
> could also be used to attack E machine-to-machine messages.  I haven't had
> a chance to carefully examine the paper yet.

The important attack here is timing analysis on keystrokes - so although
traffic analysis may well yield some amusement with E, it seems clear it
would be of a different ilk to this problem except when the
inter-machine messages are linked with, err, keystrokes.

Cheers,

Ben.

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