New side channel attack that can recover Bitcoin keys



Summary:

In an email exchange between Jean-Paul Kogelman and Pieter, the former asked about the prevention of timing attacks in a certain implementation. Pieter responded that while he had done some preliminary work on making it leak less, there was hardly any effort to prevent timing attacks and it was not guaranteed to be constant time either.


Updated on: 2023-05-19T18:14:21.989364+00:00