Re: Voltage problems lead to exploitable RSA weakness

On Thursday 06 May 2010 14:58:34 Aidan Thornton wrote:
> On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 8:30 PM, Matthew Toseland
> <toad-EI5O+8PHWbJeeLb3ft/[email protected]> wrote:
> > Maybe we should always check signatures after generating them if the seclevel is sufficiently paranoid?
> >
> > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8637845.stm
> 
> Probably not worthwhile except in very exotic circumstances; if the
> attacker has the level of hardware access required to pull this trick
> off, you're generally screwed anyway.

But what if your system is flaky anyway (e.g. overclocked)?

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