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December 20, 2013 10:55 am PST
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Deriving cryptographic keys by listening to CPUs' "coilwhine"
In RSA Key Extraction via Low-Bandwidth Acoustic Cryptanalysis [PDF], a paper by Daniel Genkin and Eran Tromer of Tel Aviv University and Adi Shamir, the authors show that a sensitive microphone (such as the one in a compromised mobile phone) can be used to infer a secret cryptographic key being used by a nearby computer.Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/glDSTDa_Bm4/story01.htm
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