Author Topic: The end of RSA? (Read 4770 times)

Sorunome · « **on:** December 20, 2013, 04:36:59 pm »

I guess it was only a matter of time, but researches managed to crack RSA - by listening to a computer while it is decrypting the data.
You could use a phone near a laptop to crack the RSA.....welp

Anyways, source: http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/173108-researchers-crack-the-worlds-toughest-encryption-by-listening-to-the-tiny-sounds-made-by-your-computers-cpu

pimathbrainiac · « **Reply #1 on:** December 20, 2013, 04:40:50 pm »

Oh no...

It's not like you couldn't already brute-force them...

* pimathbrainiac converts to [insert more secure type here (IIRC, there's one that creates a new key every time a decryption hapens)]

Sorunome · « **Reply #2 on:** December 20, 2013, 04:41:36 pm »

IIRC something called EEC is more secure.

pimathbrainiac · « **Reply #3 on:** December 20, 2013, 04:51:49 pm »

fb39ca4 · « **Reply #4 on:** December 20, 2013, 04:54:17 pm »

Keep in mind they have only got this working on two very specific laptop models.

shmibs · « **Reply #5 on:** December 20, 2013, 05:30:14 pm »

IIRC something called EEC is more secure.

are you thinking of ECDSA? and yeah, if you aren't using it yet, you should definitely start.

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #6 on:** December 20, 2013, 05:34:00 pm »

What I wish is that we find ways to crack the TI-Nspire RSA keys faster. But then, TI will have switched to something else long ago.

AngelFish · « **Reply #7 on:** December 20, 2013, 05:34:42 pm »

Sorunome · « **Reply #8 on:** December 20, 2013, 05:39:43 pm »

Hehe, the NSA is everywhere

pimathbrainiac · « **Reply #9 on:** December 20, 2013, 05:54:32 pm »

You have less to worry about than me, Soru. I'm living in the US

fb39ca4 · « **Reply #10 on:** December 20, 2013, 06:42:27 pm »

What I wish is that we find ways to crack the TI-Nspire RSA keys faster. But then, TI will have switched to something else long ago.

An attack like this would not help for the Nspire, because the private keys are never present on the calculator in the first place.