Acoustic sie channel attack

David Picon Alvarez eleuteri at myrealbox.com
Sun May 16 13:49:57 CEST 2004


Hi,

Maybe you've already seen this link:
http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~tromer/acoustic/

It seems that it is possible to extract some information from the noise of
the processor when doing public key work, and potentially do timing attack.

I'm not sure this is a particularly dangerous side channel, anyway, but just
in case you're interested.

--David.





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