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Mention physical access / close proximity

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Taylor Hornby 2016-07-18 14:54:22 -06:00
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@ -19,8 +19,9 @@ Side-Channel Attacks
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This implementation of Zcash is not resistant to side-channel attacks. You
should assume other unprivileged users running on the same hardware as your
`zcashd` process will be able to:
should assume (even unprivileged) users who are running on the hardware, or who
are physically near the hardware, that your `zcashd` process is running on will
be able to:
- Determine the values of your secret spending keys, as well as which notes you
are spending, by observing cache side-channels as you perform a JoinSplit