PITA Steals Encrpytion Keys

[kfnight]

http://www.engadget.com/2015/06/23/pita-radio-wave-hack/?ncid=rss_truncated



Researchers like to say it takes the energy of a billion sons to break something like AES, but it's a lot easier if you use something like this or social engineering techniques.

[suicidaleggroll]

If a hacker can get this device within 19" of your processor, they're close enough to just plug in a keylogger and grab your password.  As one of the comments on that site says:

If a hacker gets within 19 inches of your systems, he's already won.

[helius]

dynamic power analysis is nothing new, and is the reason you typically don't use general purpose processors for crypto in high security environments.

[Deathwish]

Brought to you by the designers of stuxnet huh ? ........

[JoeN]

This has been around for a while, but obviously a good implementation of the ideas.  Probably would be considered illegal in the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempest_%28codename%29
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Eck_phreaking