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Sunday, August 24, 2014

Researchers Get Crypto Keys Off Laptop by Touching it

Researchers Get Crypto Keys Off Laptop by Touching it: Some smart people figured out how to extract cryptographic keys from a laptop by touching it. Pretty ingenious.

Measuring the electrical potential leaked to your skin when you touch the metal chassis of such laptops, and analyzing that signal using sophisticated software, can be enough to determine the keys stored within, says Eran Tromer, a computer security expert at Tel Aviv University.

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