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Trusted Browsers for Uncertain Times
2016
USENIX Security Symposium
JavaScript in one origin can use timing channels in browsers to learn sensitive information about a user's interaction with other origins, violating the browser's compartmentalization guarantees. Browser vendors have attempted to close timing channels by trying to rewrite sensitive code to run in constant time and by reducing the resolution of reference clocks. We argue that these ad-hoc efforts are unlikely to succeed. We show techniques that increase the effective resolution of degraded
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