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Physical Key Extraction Attacks on PCs.

The article presents research on using optical, acoustic, and thermal "side channels" as a means of monitoring personal computers with the goal of breaking their cryptographic security protocols. The leaking of cryptographic information due to computers' varying acoustic, electrical, and electromagn...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 59; no. 6; pp. 70 - 80
Main Authors: GENKIN, DANIEL, PACHMANOV, LEV, PIPMAN, ITAMAR, SHAMIR, ADI, TROMER, ERAN
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Jun2016
Subjects:
Computer security
Computer hacking
Computer security vulnerabilities
Cryptography
RSA algorithm
Computer security software
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:The article presents research on using optical, acoustic, and thermal "side channels" as a means of monitoring personal computers with the goal of breaking their cryptographic security protocols. The leaking of cryptographic information due to computers' varying acoustic, electrical, and electromagnetic properties can allegedly be used to decrypt RSA algorithms and ElGamal keys and methods to prevent side channel attacks are presented.