anakupto: How your computer's secrets could be cracked by a smartphone just LISTENING to it as it runs its encryption software

How your computer's secrets could be cracked by a smartphone just LISTENING to it as it runs its encryption software | Mail Online: "The hum your made by your computer's microprocessor could be used by an eavesdropper to to crack your digital encryption keys, new research claims.

Simple as that: The set up used by the Tel Aviv team to extract the laptop's encryption keys merely by putting a smart phone close to it. The phone was sensitive enough to read the key from the sound of the PC

Simple as that: The set up used by the Tel Aviv team to extract the laptop's encryption keys merely by putting a smart phone close to it. The phone was sensitive enough to read the key from the sound of the PC

Researchers at Tel Aviv University in Israel have shown that merely listening to the quiet vibrations made by a computer can reveal what operations it is running. Those sounds can be analysed so precisely, they claim, they can even reveal the details of encryption keys used for secure web browsing, credit card transactions and encrypted email."

Saturday, December 21, 2013

How your computer's secrets could be cracked by a smartphone just LISTENING to it as it runs its encryption software

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