Stealing smartphone crypto keys using plain old radio

[crayon]

Hacking stunt: Stealing smartphone crypto keys using plain old radio

The radio-based device will pick up electromagnetic waves occurring when the crypto libraries inside the smartphone are used, and computations can reveal the private key. "We're stealing the key as it's being used," he says, adding, "It's independent of key length."

Awesome.

 

[EJLofgren]

This is pretty cool! There's been a lot of work done in the past on stealing information based off of passive monitoring of crypto or other computations, but this is the first time I've heard of it being done on smartphones. I hope they actually address the underlying problem of information getting out and not just try to make it harder for people to figure out what the information corresponds to.

 

[kb7wox]

A stunt alright, another "expert" with his head up his ***

 

[OCO]

A stunt alright, another "expert" with his head up his ***

and you're making this judgement based on...........

 

[kb7wox]

and you're making this judgement based on...........

Its oral vomit from “experts” like this, that leads politicians to pass more draconian scanner laws....

 

[Fast1eddie]

Yeah, right. And Einstein, if it does work it would not for long since you compromised it.

 

[Thayne]

Yeah, right. And Einstein, if it does work it would not for long since you compromised it.

Funny to me, but nobody else seems to think streaming has the same effect, to some degree---