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Stealing Keys from PCs using a Radio: Cheap Electromagnetic Attacks on Windowed Exponentiation

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What makes this news? TEMPEST ANYONE (Score: 1)

by bsdguy@pipedot.org on 2015-03-23 02:31 (#5FZK)

I learned about doing this back in the Navy in the late 1970s. This is exactly why there are protocols over what electronics can be used when on a warship. Back in the 1980s it was possible to pick up random radiation to discover the position of a ship fairly far away, and if one had the right equipment even in those days keystrokes could be decoded based on the radiation from the keyboards and terminals.

So I have to say that those who do not read history are doomed to learn the lesson again.

bsdguy

Re: What makes this news? TEMPEST ANYONE (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2015-03-23 16:02 (#5HZX)

It may be an old attack vector but it's certainly news to me that in this day and age this can still be done with such low-grade hardware.
Also that new versions of the affected libraries are available.

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Marked as [Not Junk] by evilviper@pipedot.org on 2015-03-28 08:14