Re: [quicwg/base-drafts] Why does stateless reset have to be checked after MAC failure (#2152)

Martin Thomson <notifications@github.com> Tue, 27 August 2019 13:44 UTC

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Subject: Re: [quicwg/base-drafts] Why does stateless reset have to be checked after MAC failure (#2152)
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Assume that you do have a way of measuring how long it takes to process a garbage packet.  Also assume that there is just one token.  If you don't compare in constant time, the attacker can measure how long it takes to compare the possible token with the real token.  For every byte that matches, you take a tiny bit longer.  A complete search takes just 2^12 guesses, multiplied by any oversampling factor you might need to extract the side channel information.  That makes it not very hard.

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