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wrappingS-ECMA-DATE.js File Reference

Wrappers for the Date object. More...

Detailed Description

Wrappers for the Date object.

Author
Copyright (C) 2019 Libor Polcak
Copyright (C) 2020 Peter Hornak
License:
SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later

This wrapper aims on prevention of microarchitectural attacks, clock-skew attacks, and other time related attacks. The goal is to limit the precision of the time returned by the Date object.

See also
https://www.fit.vut.cz/study/thesis/22308/?year=0&sup=Pol%C4%8D%C3%A1k, especially Sect. 7.2.
Tom Van Goethem, Wouter Joosen, Nick Nikiforakis. The Clock is Still Ticking: Timing Attacks in the Modern Web. CCS'15. Link, DOI
Schwarz, M., Lipp, M. a Gruss, D. JavaScript Zero: Real JavaScript and Zero Side-Channel Attacks. NDSS'18.
Schwarz M., Maurice C., Gruss D., Mangard S. (2017) Fantastic Timers and Where to Find Them: High-Resolution Microarchitectural Attacks in JavaScript. In: Kiayias A. (eds) Financial Cryptography and Data Security. FC 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 10322. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70972-7_13

The wrappers support the following behaviour:

  • Round timestamp: Limit the precision by removing (a part of) the decimal part of the timestamp.
  • Randomize after rounding: Create a fake decimal part to confuse attackers and to create timestamps that look similar to expected timestamps.