- cross-posted to:
- security@programming.dev
- cross-posted to:
- security@programming.dev
A more TLDR article about this: https://www.extremetech.com/defense/173108-researchers-crack-the-worlds-toughest-encryption-by-listening-to-the-tiny-sounds-made-by-your-computers-cpu
FAQs from the researchers: https://web.archive.org/web/20230130225254/http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~tromer/acoustic/
but, you surely will agree, this is pretty devastating for any target. known cleartext may be trivial to insert into a targets workflow, and the confirmed recovery of a private key is potentially a massive payoff.
the ability to process and extract sensitive information from the local environment has gotten seriously scary.