Re: Timing Attacks -- enough!

[peter @ nmti . com (Peter da Silva)]

> 	A firewall is not the same thing as a "secure" webserver, and that
> is the targetted device in question. And for those of us who don't run
> one, this discussion is of zero relevance.

The target is any cryptologically protected authentication mechanism.

That includes firewalls. The example used is secure webservers, but that
certainly doesn't mean it's the only possible application. Any reasonably
secure proxy telnet seems likely to be a possible target.