From: Armadillo Remailer <remailer@armadillo.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 1995 22:37:51 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Timing Cryptanalysis Attack
Message-ID: <199512131315.HAA01726@monad.armadillo.com>
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Simon Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu> writes:

>My gut & scribble-on-the-back-of-a-napkin feeling about this class of
>attack is that it could be a problem for smartcards (almost certainly)

Is it a problem to create smartcards that do their calculations in
fixed time? I'd guess it should be easier than on multi-purpose
hardware.

Does the attack work for existing smartcards?