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I was as skeptical as you are. But then I read the original article. The attackers here specify the ciphertext, and they craft a specific one for every bit they
by computer 13y ago
I was as skeptical as you are. But then I read the original article. The attackers here specify the ciphertext, and they craft a specific one for every bit they want to extract from the private key.
The ability to craft a ciphertext of ~1 second per bit makes it plausible they are able to force the difference between a 0 and a 1 to be large enough to be heard. Still surprising, but plausible.
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- sherjilozair 13y agoYou're just making a fool of yourself. This work is absurd, ridiculous and legit at the same time.
- matthewmacleod 13y agoIt's pretty far out, but Adi Shamir is one of the world's foremost experts in cryptography. The paper is pretty thorough, including details of the lab setup and tests which were conducted. There's even a patch for GnuPG. In short, I'm not really clear what else you'd expect to see.