This whitepaper describes a timing attack vulnerability in OpenSSL's ladder implementation for curves over binary fields. They use this vulnerability to steal the private key of a TLS server where the server authenticates with ECDSA signatures. Using the timing of the exchanged messages, the messages themselves, and the signatures, they mount a lattice attack that recovers the private key. Finally, they describe and implement an effective countermeasure.
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