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Breaking RSA Keys by Listening to Your Computer

Posted by Hemos on from the sssh-i'm-hunting-for-wabbits dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Adi Shamir and crew gave a talk on preliminary results in extracting a private RSA key just by listening to the computer!. Similar to power analysis and LED leakage, this is a non-invasive, side channel attack that may have applications to tamper-resistant systems. It appears to be related to noisy capacitors on the motherboard, an effect which has been observed when CPU power saving is enabled on laptops."

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  1. Re:It's the CPU dummy! by pair-a-noyd · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Jeezuz Fn christ! Do you mods even RTFA??

    The article said the CPU is a 666mhz chip,
    " the computer being recorded is a no-brand box using a PC Chips M754LMR motherboard, an Intel Celeron 666MHz CPU"

    Who ever modded parent off topic is a RETARD...