Re: [paper] RSA Key Extraction via Low-Bandwidth Acoustic Cryptanalysis

On Fri, 2013-12-20 at 14:42 -0700, David L. Anselmi wrote:
> Timothy Tuck wrote:
> > On 19.12.2013 14:58, Bill Bogstad wrote:
> > --- snip ---
> >>> fantastic! :/
> >>>
> >>> So ya this basically just rendered all encryption virtually useless!
> >>
> >> Not even close. Even if one believes everything being said about the result, all it means is
> >> that one shouldn't let anyone be within acoustic range of their computer when it is decrypting
> >> the message. That isn't much harder to accomplish than not letting anyone read my email over my
> >> shoulder.
> >
> > Wow, is that some special kind of crack that your on?
> > Not much harder to accomplish than not letting anyone read over your shoulder eh?
> 
> Debian has a patch out.  So I guess we're back to not even close.

Would this patch be similar to the one they did to SSH a few years ago?

If so, then we should just give them the damned Signing Key.
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