Cryptographic timing attack

{
  "id": "local-technique:cryptographic-timing",
  "title": "Cryptographic timing attack",
  "type": "Historical concept",
  "snapshot": "historical-seed.json",
  "source_url": "https://paulkocher.com/doc/TimingAttacks.pdf",
  "description": "Timing observations may reveal secret-dependent implementation behavior.",
  "defensive_context": "Constant-time implementations, appropriate blinding and measured leakage testing.",
  "publication": {
    "id": "local-publication:cryptographic-timing-milestone",
    "entity_type": "Publication",
    "title": "Timing Attacks on Implementations of Diffie-Hellman, RSA, DSS, and Other Systems",
    "source_url": "https://paulkocher.com/doc/TimingAttacks.pdf",
    "publication_date": "1996",
    "publisher": "CRYPTO96",
    "credit_display": "Paul C. Kocher",
    "credit_role": "research author"
  },
  "mappings": [
    {
      "target_id": "CWE-208",
      "relation": "underlying observable timing weakness",
      "status": "research-supplied conceptual mapping; target exists in imported taxonomy; semantic review pending"
    }
  ],
  "uncertainty": "A cryptographic timing milestone, not the origin of every timing or covert-channel concept.",
  "rights": "Original concise metadata and linked references; no full paper or payload imported",
  "review_status": "Editorial historical seed; conceptual mappings remain explicitly provisional"
}