Re: Black Hat: New database attack revealed - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Josh Berkus
Subject Re: Black Hat: New database attack revealed
Date
Msg-id 200708020846.04006.josh@agliodbs.com
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In response to Re: Black Hat: New database attack revealed  (Chris Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org>)
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All,

> Lots of "maybes" here, but certainly lots of things *likely* to happen
> that will throw off attempts to time things.  Configuration would also
> have big effects on timings; more cache would generally make some
> operations take less time, thereby drawing timings together, and
> cutting down on the variations that the "attacker" is trying to
> measure.

Heh, I never thought our unpredictable response times would be an asset ...

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Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL @ Sun
San Francisco

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