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Smartphone can use its microphone to extract RSA decryption key from laptop
This is neat: Here, we describe a new acoustic cryptanalysis key extraction attack, applicable to GnuPG’s current implementation of RSA. The attack can extract full 4096-bit RSA decryption keys from laptop computers (of various models), within an hour, using the sound generated by the computer during the decryption of…
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Security & PrivacyHardware & Electronics2013
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| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 21, 2013 | Smartphone can use its microphone to extract RSA decryption key from laptop by BrandonMarc | 156 | 40 |
