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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Publicado en:	Communications of the ACM Vol. 58; no. 4; pp. 18 - 21
Autor principal:	Edwards, Chris
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Association for Computing Machinery Apr2015
Materias:	Computer hacking Data security failures Data encryption Algorithms Integrated circuits Electronic data processing Application program interfaces Computer hackers Microprocessors
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Sumario:	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.