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Hackers can steal cryptographic keys by video-recording power LEDs 60 feet away

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Hackers can steal cryptographic keys by video-recording power LEDs 60 feet away

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Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 year ago

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Key-leaking side channels are a fact of life. Now they can be done by video-recording power LEDs.

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Yikes! I wonder how isolated the led has to be to the CPU power supply to prevent this sort of attack!

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