RSA encryption cracked by carefully starving CPU of electricity
engadget.com
engadget.com
I cannot comprehend the confusion of ideas necessary to generate this phrase.
http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~valeria/research/publications/DAT...
By the way, this is from a year ago.
I'll take the latter, thank you.
I hope you're joking. Sometimes, sure, they're good. But that article is ... I'll hold my tongue. They're making it out to be some amazing feat. While I don't want to take away from the authors who I'm sure are great researchers, this is nothing new. And then there's the part where they suggest RSA fix it, and that's just something else.
I mostly just disagree with the parent's assertion that a short summary of a research paper posted on a major publication qualifies as "blog spam" or that the original poster had some kind of obligation to track down the source paper. Sometimes a tl;dr version is just what the doctor ordered.
Hopefully RSA will publish their own summary of this attack ;)