Meaning of side-channel | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An indirect source of information about what a system is doing.
2. A branch from the main flow

Examples

“Security against side-channel attacks is especially significant in situations where ciphers are implemented in hardware like smart cards or tamper-resistant devices, where secrets are meant to be closely guarded and thus no room for compromise via leakage of secrets.”

“This attack has been applied by Klima et al. to popular realworld implementations of the SSL protocol by incorporating an additional side-channel which was a version number check over PKCS#1 plaintext [17].”

“For simple power analysis, we explore whether or not instructions can lead to consistently distinguishable side-channel information, and if so, how the side-channel characteristics differ.”

“The primary concerns in the development of side-channel habitat are channel stability, potential for deposition and burial, and disturbance of existing riparian and wetland habitats.”

“Access to side-channels by baseflows (i.e., the side-channel entrance is just barely inundated) does not necessarily create 1+ coho habitat, although seepage into side-channel segments may have created important habitat toward the lower portions of some side-channels.”

“We have constructed such a system with a side-channel pump (Fig.7).”

“Once inside the side-channel, sediment was swept to the left hand side of the channel by the vortex.”

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