Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Effects of cache partitioning

Effects of cache partitioning

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Original – Effects of cache partitioning on cache timing attacks

Reason

This is my first time nominating a featured picture, I think this is a quality picture that is able to accurately depict the effects of one of the most successful defences against Cross-site leaks in the last decade. Cache partitioning is a feature in most modern browsers that prevent cache timing attacks (a type of Cross-site leak) from occuring. Before the introduction of Cache partitioning, an attacker could gain information about a different site (say Gmail) by checking how long a particular image took to load. If a image took a small amount of time to load, the attacker could infer that the image was previously used by the website (since the image would be stored in the Web cache). Similarly, if the image took too long to load, a attacker could infer that the image had not been previously loaded by the other website. With cache partitioning, both a cached image and an uncached image from a different site will take approximately the same amount of time to resolve blocking this kind of information leakage.

Articles in which this image appears

Cross-site leaks

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured_pictures/Diagrams,_drawings,_and_maps/Diagrams

Creator

Sohom Datta

• Support as nominator – Sohom (talk) 18:36, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
• Oppose - too esoteric and difficult to understand for the average viewer. Visually, it's just a couple of diagrams. --Janke | Talk 19:41, 7 April 2024 (UTC)

  @Janke The fact that this diagram illustrates a fairly esoteric concept itself should be a reason for a FP. To my knowledge, a graph demonstrating the effect of cache partitioning on cache timing attacks does not exist even on the wider internet as of yet. Also, even if we do find one, there is a very slim chance that it will be near the quality of this picture since those tend to be pixelated and embedded in research paper (which are mostly non-free).

  Additionally, this picture would also be a good addition to Timing attacks since it demonstrates the concept behind the attack. Sohom (talk) 20:56, 7 April 2024 (UTC)

  I'm open to open-sourcing the dataset and methodology if that helps my case :) Sohom (talk) 21:01, 7 April 2024 (UTC)

• Oppose – Visual information not readily intelligible to general readers/viewers. Gobbledygook. No target article. – Sca (talk) 14:08, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
• I'd like to withdraw my nom here. Based on the opposes, it's clear to me that FP is not the intended audience here. I assume the opposers have access to an abundance of high quality graphs that depict and demonstrate timing attacks in much better ways than mine and my contributions are indeed just gobbledygook and intelligible. Thank you for the feedback. Sohom (talk) 15:19, 8 April 2024 (UTC)