Re: How I Learned to Stop Ph34ring NSA and Love the Base Rate Fallacy

[Sven Anderson <sven@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Raccoon,

Am 28.09.2008 um 14:27 schrieb The23rd Raccoon:
> [2]. http://www.stinkymeat.net/

thanks for that reference. Great!

As for your article: as far as I can tell the calculations seem to be  
valid, but I wonder, why others didn't address this in their timing  
attack work before.

One question: You assume 250,000 users and 5000 concurrent  
connections, so one connection per 50 users? Is this realistic? I  
know, that most of the time a user is idle, but still this seems to  
low to me, since once the user becomes active he will open several  
concurrent connections (like for opening a website). And why do you  
assume the number of users at all, I don't see a reference to it in  
your calculations.

Sven