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Keys Leaking Through the Air At RSA

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the patch-it-up dept.

NumberField writes "The RSA Conference is underway in San Francisco. A theme among the opening speakers is that the attackers are winning, and even well-funded organizations like NASDAQ can't secure their networks reliably. The show floor is lively, but dominated by the typical firewalls and 'compliance solutions.' One interesting exception is a scary side-channel analysis demo in the Cryptography Research booth using GNU Radio to capture secret keys from various smartphones from about 10 feet away. (The method is related to early computer music using AM radio interference.)"

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  1. I fucking hate summaries like this by topham · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I fucking hate summaries with a half dozen links that don't seem to link to an article actually discussing the issue in the summary.

    Why approved this shit?

    1. Re:I fucking hate summaries like this by Lord+Ender · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Sounds like the poster is using slashdot to blog about what he is seeing at the RSA conference. There aren't good links because the data was originally presented in meatspace.

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  2. Re:Some background by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What's wrong with demodulating an amplitude modulated signal? How would you have phrased it differently without losing information?