In order to defend against cache probing attacks, browser developers are actively working on implementing a partitioned HTTP cache functionality that would in essence ensure each website has a distinct cache. Since cache probing relies on the fact that a browser’s HTTP cache is shared across every website, a partitioned HTTP cache can defend against many cache probing techniques. This is done by using tuples (either (top-frame-site, resource-url) like firefox 1 or (top-frame-site, framing-s...
