WaSCR: A WebAssembly Instruction-Timing Side Channel Repairer

WebAssembly (Wasm) is a platform-independent, low-level binary language that enables near-native performance in web applications. Given its growing importance in the web ecosystem, securing WebAssembly programs becomes increasingly important. A key security concern with WebAssembly is the threat of instruction-timing side-channel attacks, which exploit timing variations in branch instructions dependent on sensitive data, allowing attackers to infer sensitive information through timing measurement.

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2025-04-22
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https://doi.org/10.1145/3696410.3714693
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Cryptographic Implementations and Security
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WaSCR: A WebAssembly Instruction-Timing Side Channel Repairer

Lein-Saing Huang, Weihang Wang, Junzhou He, Chao Wang
Cryptographic Implementations and Security
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WaSCR: A WebAssembly Instruction-Timing Side Channel Repairer

Lein-Saing Huang, Weihang Wang, Junzhou He, Chao Wang
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Abstract

WebAssembly (Wasm) is a platform-independent, low-level binary language that enables near-native performance in web applications. Given its growing importance in the web ecosystem, securing WebAssembly programs becomes increasingly important. A key security concern with WebAssembly is the threat of instruction-timing side-channel attacks, which exploit timing variations in branch instructions dependent on sensitive data, allowing attackers to infer sensitive information through timing measurement.

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Cryptographic Implementations and Security
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