Side-channel attacks
Also known as: side channel
A side-channel attack infers secrets from a system’s behavior rather than its output — timing, memory access, power draw.
- Inference timing can reveal what’s being processed.
- Memory-access patterns can leak structure.
- Subtle, hard to detect, and easy to overlook.
The lesson: security isn't only about what a model says. What it *does* — and how fast, and where in memory — can also leak. Thorough red teaming looks at both.