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Exaggerating Timing Attack Results Via GET Flooding

Prompted by a forum post from Super-Friez, RSnake proposes flooding GET requests not for bandwidth but to load the server, ideally against a URL that hits the database, so a timing attack's signal grows. A difference normally measured in microseconds becomes seconds, turning an unusable timing oracle into a practical one.

In the archive

• Nominated for the 2007 Top 10 Web Hacking Techniques

Tags

• timing-attack
• dos
• side-channel
• http
• algorithmic-complexity
• owasp-a04-2021

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