Covert Timing Channel

A channel that conveys information by altering the performance of a system component or modifying a resource’s timing in a predictable manner. A covert channel in which one process signals information to another by modulating its own use of system resources in such a way that this manipulation affects the real response time observed by the second process. Covert channel in which one process signals information to another process by modulating its own use of system resources (e. g. , central processing unit time) in such a way that this manipulation affects the real response time observed by the second process.