2008 Third International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security
An Independent Evaluation of Web Timing Attack and its Countermeasure
March 04-March 07
ISBN: 978-0-7695-3102-1
Web timing have attacks become a new threat on the Internet because they enable attackers to reveal users' private information. In this paper, we evaluate the threat of a web timing attack and its countermeasure. Our contribution is to investigate the occurrence conditions of a web timing attack. We also verify the effectiveness of our countermeasure, whose significant feature is fixing the authentication time whereas previous work fixes the response time. For our evaluation, we measure response times of several web applications, and analyze the result with statistical testing. We find that it is difficult to reveal the of username in some types of applications,and we confirm that our countermeasure can thwart web timing attacks.
Index Terms:
Web Timing Attack, Countermeasure, Web Application Security
Citation:
Yoshitaka Nagami, Daisuke Miyamoto, Hiroaki Hazeyama, Youki Kadobayashi, "An Independent Evaluation of Web Timing Attack and its Countermeasure," ares, pp.1319-1324, 2008 Third International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, 2008