Side-Channel Attacks

Pierluigi Paganini June 24, 2019
OpenSSH introduces a security feature to prevent Side-Channel Attacks

OpenSSH introduces a new feature to prevent Side-Channel attacks, latest release encrypts secret keys in memory as temporary solution. Memory side-channel vulnerabilities continue to threaten modern processors, Spectre, and Meltdown, Rowhammer, and RAMBleed are just some samples,  Now OpenSSH encrypts secret keys in memory against Side-Channel attacks. Many experts demonstrated variants of side-channel attacks against OpenSSH application […]