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Robert Gillham

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0as first author
0since 2021 · last 2019
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Security and privacy · 1

Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.

Network and information security
1 paper
Hardware security and side channels · 61% Cryptographic primitives and cryptanalysis · 30% Network security · 9%

Topics — the 4 heaviest of 6, each with the papers that count most for it

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Hardware security and side channels › microarchitectural attacks
cache attacks
0.412019
The 9 Lives of Bleichenbacher's CAT: New Cache ATtacks on TLS Implementations · IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2019
Hardware security and side channels
microarchitectural side channel
0.412019
The 9 Lives of Bleichenbacher's CAT: New Cache ATtacks on TLS Implementations · IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2019
Cryptographic primitives and cryptanalysis › cryptanalysis › protocol cryptanalysis
padding oracle attack
0.412019
The 9 Lives of Bleichenbacher's CAT: New Cache ATtacks on TLS Implementations · IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2019
Network security › secure communication › secure communication protocol
TLS
0.112019
The 9 Lives of Bleichenbacher's CAT: New Cache ATtacks on TLS Implementations · IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2019

Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics

parallelization · 0.4chosen-ciphertext attack · 0.4
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2019 The 9 Lives of Bleichenbacher's CAT: New Cache ATtacks on TLS Implementations
abstract
At CRYPTO'98, Bleichenbacher published his seminal paper which described a padding oracle attack against RSA implementations that follow the PKCS #1 v1.5 standard. Over the last twenty years researchers and implementors had spent a huge amount of effort in developing and deploying numerous mitigation techniques which were supposed to plug all the possible sources of Bleichenbacher-like leakages. However, as we show in this paper, most implementations are still vulnerable to several novel types of attack based on leakage from various microarchitectural side channels: Out of nine popular implementations of TLS that we tested, we were able to break the security of seven implementations with practical proof-of-concept attacks. We demonstrate the feasibility of using those Cache-like ATacks (CATs) to perform a downgrade attack against any TLS connection to a vulnerable server, using a BEAST-like Man in the Browser attack. The main difficulty we face is how to perform the thousands of oracle queries required before the browser's imposed timeout (which is 30 seconds for almost all browsers, with the exception of Firefox which can be tricked into extending this period). Due to its use of adaptive chosen ciphertext queries, the attack seems to be inherently sequential, but we describe a new way to parallelize Bleichenbacher-like padding attacks by exploiting any available number of TLS servers that share the same public key certificate. With this improvement, we can demonstrate the feasibility of a downgrade attack which could recover all the 2048 bits of the RSA plaintext (including the premaster secret value, which suffices to establish a secure connection) from five available TLS servers in under 30 seconds. This sequential-to-parallel transformation of such attacks can be of independent interest, speeding up and facilitating other side channel attacks on RSA implementations.
Eyal Ronen, Robert Gillham, Daniel Genkin, Adi Shamir, Yuval Yarom
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy2