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RSA Decryption keys can be stolen acoustically

TheYoungEnthusiast
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Big news for computer security. Someone could steal a 4096-bit RSA (current standard for encryption) from your running laptop with a cell phone microphone.

 

http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~tromer/acoustic/

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Ugh hackers scare me :(

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welp, i was exactly 3 minutes late. boo.

Edit: 2 minutes off...not 3

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welp, i was exactly 3 minutes late. boo.

Lol sorry bout that, i waited for someone to post than figured that I'd go ahead and do it first

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RSA was broken years ago when backdoors were identified and exploited.

 

A potential backdoor for RSA was found back in 2007. It amazes me companies still continued and adopted it as a standard... guess they might have been strong armed into adopting it due to it's built in backdoors.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/11/the_strange_sto.html

 

Shit happens when random numbers turn out not to be so random.

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Users cannot, and will not securely manage key material. Most users can't and the ones that can, wont.

Ask me about Bitcoin, Litecoin, Crypto-Currencies, and/or Mining them.

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RSA was broken years ago when backdoors were identified and exploited.

 

A potential backdoor for RSA was found back in 2007. It amazes me companies still continued and adopted it as a standard... guess they might have been strong armed into adopting it due to it's built in backdoors.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/11/the_strange_sto.html

 

Shit happens when random numbers turn out not to be so random.

That's not a security flaw in RSA, that's a flaw in Dual_EC_DRBG.

AES all the way!  :P

Apples and oranges. RSA is asymmetrical and AES is symmetrica. They are used for different things.
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