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Secure-System Designers Strive to Stem Data Leaks.

The article focuses on the use of side-channel analysis by hackers to reveal secure cryptographic keys and protected data and some countermeasures. It states that the affordable programmable integrated circuit open-source platform Chip-Whisperer has widened the potential user base of hackers using s...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 58; no. 4; pp. 18 - 21
Main Author: Edwards, Chris
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Apr2015
Subjects:
Computer hacking
Data security failures
Data encryption
Algorithms
Integrated circuits
Electronic data processing
Application program interfaces
Computer hackers
Microprocessors
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:The article focuses on the use of side-channel analysis by hackers to reveal secure cryptographic keys and protected data and some countermeasures. It states that the affordable programmable integrated circuit open-source platform Chip-Whisperer has widened the potential user base of hackers using side-channel attacks. It mentions that side-channel analysis focuses on the core algorithm by detecting changes in data processed by algorithms running on a dedicated hardware unit or microprocessor. It comments on the vulnerability of Web application programming interface keys to side-channel attacks and talks about countermeasures against side-channel attacks.