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Timing Attack

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January 19, 2017
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Timing Attack

Lightning Talk about how to securely compare two strings, using Rails.

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January 19, 2017
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Transcript

  1. Timing Attack

  2. ~/awesome/project master= ∴

  3. ~/awesome/project master= ∴ git show f19c712702c9fced2461eabd2443c1009baffebb

  4. ~/awesome/project master= ∴ git show f19c712702c9fced2461eabd2443c1009baffebb commit f19c712702c9fced2461eabd2443c1009baffebb Author: Rubens

    Stulzer <[email protected]> Date: Wed Apr 13 17:27:40 2016 -0300 Improves security when comparing password diff --git a/app/models/session.rb b/app/models/session.rb index 7041c8a..685c247 100644 --- a/app/models/session.rb +++ b/app/models/session.rb @@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ private def password_match? - salted_user_password == salted_db_password + ActiveSupport::SecurityUtils.secure_compare(salted_user_password, salted_db_password) end

  5. String comparison using ==

  6. P A S S W O R D P A

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  33. P I D S I N G T P A

    S S W O R D Time taken - μ1 false

  34. This is OK

  35. None

  36. We

  37. We

  38. We Ruby

  39. String comparison is supposed to work like that

  40. The problem is the time taken μ1 - For the

    wrong one μ20 - For the right one

  41. P A S S W O R D P A

    S S I N G T

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  55. We have a pattern here

  56. Longer it takes, more close to discover the password you

    are

  57. Avoiding this issue with .secure_compare

  58. P A S S W O R D P A

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  78. None

  79. We

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  81. We Rails

  82. Thank You