Cache timing attack

{{Short description|Class of cybersecurity attacks}}

Cache timing attacks also known as Cache attacks are a type of side-channel attack that allows attackers to gain information about a system purely by tracking cache access made by the victim system in a shared environment.{{Cite book |chapter-url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8574600 |access-date=2023-11-17 |doi=10.1109/MICRO.2018.00083 |hdl=1721.1/124388 |s2cid=44165047 |chapter=DAWG: A Defense Against Cache Timing Attacks in Speculative Execution Processors |title=2018 51st Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO) |date=2018 |last1=Kiriansky |first1=Vladimir |last2=Lebedev |first2=Ilia |last3=Amarasinghe |first3=Saman |last4=Devadas |first4=Srinivas |last5=Emer |first5=Joel |pages=974–987 |isbn=978-1-5386-6240-3 }}{{Cite book |last1=Van Goethem |first1=Tom |last2=Joosen |first2=Wouter |last3=Nikiforakis |first3=Nick |chapter=The Clock is Still Ticking: Timing Attacks in the Modern Web |date=2015-10-12 |title=Proceedings of the 22nd ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security |chapter-url=https://doi.org/10.1145/2810103.2813632 |location=New York, NY, USA |publisher=Association for Computing Machinery |pages=1382–1393 |doi=10.1145/2810103.2813632 |isbn=978-1-4503-3832-5|s2cid=17705638 }}{{Cite book |chapter-url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6903572 |access-date=2023-11-17 |doi=10.1109/DSN.2014.93 |s2cid=2583517 |chapter=Scriptless Timing Attacks on Web Browser Privacy |title=2014 44th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks |date=2014 |last1=Liang |first1=Bin |last2=You |first2=Wei |last3=Liu |first3=Liangkun |last4=Shi |first4=Wenchang |last5=Heiderich |first5=Mario |pages=112–123 |isbn=978-1-4799-2233-8 }}{{Cite book |last1=Bonneau |first1=Joseph |last2=Mironov |first2=Ilya |chapter=Cache-Collision Timing Attacks Against AES |date=2006 |editor-last=Goubin |editor-first=Louis |editor2-last=Matsui |editor2-first=Mitsuru |title=Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems - CHES 2006 |series=Lecture Notes in Computer Science |volume=4249 |language=en |location=Berlin, Heidelberg |publisher=Springer |pages=201–215 |doi=10.1007/11894063_16 |isbn=978-3-540-46561-4|doi-access=free }}{{Cite book |chapter-url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9152768 |access-date=2023-11-17 |doi=10.1109/SP40000.2020.00082 |s2cid=202751810 |chapter=NetCAT: Practical Cache Attacks from the Network |title=2020 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP) |date=2020 |last1=Kurth |first1=Michael |last2=Gras |first2=Ben |last3=Andriesse |first3=Dennis |last4=Giuffrida |first4=Cristiano |last5=Bos |first5=Herbert |last6=Razavi |first6=Kaveh |pages=20–38 |isbn=978-1-7281-3497-0 }}