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		AaronFriel on April 13, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Of Money, Responsibility, and Pride Are you sure? Searching for "side channel OpenSSL" reveals a majority of the attacks are against ECDSA. Of course, searches aren't the best measure of vulnerability, it's just an indication of popularity.

wbl on April 13, 2014 [–]

http://cr.yp.to/antiforgery/cachetiming-20050414.pdf ECDSA is nice because you can use partial nonce recovery+lattice reduction. Furthermore recent Intel chips have AES instructions.

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