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Offline kfnightTopic starter

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PITA Steals Encrpytion Keys
« on: June 24, 2015, 05:35:18 pm »
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.
 

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Re: PITA Steals Encrpytion Keys
« Reply #1 on: June 24, 2015, 05:55:58 pm »
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:
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If a hacker gets within 19 inches of your systems, he's already won.
 

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Re: PITA Steals Encrpytion Keys
« Reply #2 on: June 24, 2015, 06:16:09 pm »
dynamic power analysis is nothing new, and is the reason you typically don't use general purpose processors for crypto in high security environments.
 

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Re: PITA Steals Encrpytion Keys
« Reply #3 on: June 24, 2015, 06:20:13 pm »
Brought to you by the designers of stuxnet huh ? ........ :scared:
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Re: PITA Steals Encrpytion Keys
« Reply #4 on: June 25, 2015, 04:37:33 am »
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
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