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Stealing secret crypto-keys from PCs using leaked radio emissions

Michael Wojcik Silver badge

If you want to secure yourself from this type of exploit, just run a few machines in the same room!

Awesomely naive.

Take a look at that CACM article I mentioned above. While it's trivial to reduce the s/n ratio sufficiently to defeat simple homebrew equipment with poor discrimination, it's extremely difficult (some say axiomatically impossible) to prevent all side-channel attacks.

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