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GnuPG side channel attack, RSA4096 cracked via acoustic cryptanalysis
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Described here: http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/173108-researchers-crack-the-
worlds-toughest-encryption-by-listening-to-the-tiny-sounds-made-by-your-computers-
cpu

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cnd set External Link to http://www.tau.ac.il/~tromer/papers/acoustic-20131218.pdf.
cnd set Version to Undisclosed.
cnd added a subscriber: cnd.

You need to perform the bigmath modexp routines in constant time, the same as the
smartcard people do to stop key theft via power usage observation.

werner claimed this task.
werner added a project: Mistaken.

I worked with the guys and fixed versions have been released in time. The paper
and website actuallay tell this.