sidechannel
See also: side-channel
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editsidechannel (plural sidechannels)
- (computing, security) An indirect source of information about what a system is doing, such as execution time, version number, etc.
- 2005, Subhamoy Maitra, C.E. Veni Madhavan, Ramarathnam Venkatesan, Progress in Cryptology - INDOCRYPT 2005, →ISBN:
- VLSI circuits are open to sidechannel attacks which disclose information about its internal state to an adversary.
- 2007, Sean Smith, John Marchesini, The Craft of System Security, →ISBN:
- Timing attacks are an example of sidechannel analysis: examining ways a device can inadvertently transmit information, in addition to its official I/O channels.
- 2009, Marko Wolf, Security Engineering for Vehicular IT Systems, →ISBN:
- Due to their non-invasive, non-harming manner, and the rarely available and the yet more rarely implemented proper countermeasures, sidechannel attacks are a particularly dangerous attack method against many vehicular IT security mechanisms.
- A small branch from the main flow of a river, hydrolic system, or electronic circuit.
- 2001, Bitterroot National Forest (N.F.), Burned Area Recovery, Final Environmental Impact Statement:
- Juvenile growth and survivorship is likely to be reduced by cumulative losses of pool volume and sedimentation of shallow rearing areas such as stream margins and sidechannels.
- 2007, Travis B. Sanderson, Habitat Diversity and Access to Tributaries are Important to Adult Snake River Cutthroat Trout Residing in the Salt River, Wyoming (MS thesis, University of Wyoming), →ISBN:
- Among all 16 fish, eight showed an association with sidechannel habitat during the spring, being either located in a sidechannel or residing in the mainstem within one habitat unit of where a sidechannel flowed into the mainstem.
- 2013, Geoff Bearne, Marc Dupuis, Gary Tarcy, Essential Readings in Light Metals, Aluminum Reduction Technology, →ISBN:
- However as the two sidechannel transients are markedly different, because the flow is asymmetric, the value of fitting the model data to the average sidechannel transient is questionable.