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Re: a solution on the horizon to counteract detecting temperature through clock skew (on Tor Hidden Services)?

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From: Wes Felter <wesley@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 15:53:55 -0500
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Stephen wrote:

Microprocessor resistant to power analysis:
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=7,205,794.PN.&OS=PN/7,205,794&RS=PN/7,205,794

It's not clear to me that this would help. Power analysis is not the same thing as temperature-induced clock skew. AFAIK, temperature-induced fluctuations would actually be worse in asynchronous logic, although I think it would appear as performance fluctuation, not clock skew. Also, mainstream processors will not adopt asynchronous logic within the next decade, if ever.

Wes Felter - wesley@xxxxxxxxxx

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