Flylogic Engineering does some very interesting tampering with tamper-
resistant parts. Most of those secure USB sticks you see around won't
last more than a couple of minutes with these guys.
See http://www.flylogic.net/blog
-- Jerry
' =JeffH ' wrote:
From: John Young [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Adi Shamir's microprocessor bug attack
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 09:50:31 -0500 (GMT-05:00)
Adi Shamir's note on a microprocessor bug attack on public key cryptography
featured in the NY Times today:
' =JeffH ' wrote:
Adi Shamir Computer Science Department The Weizmann
Institute of Science Israel
With the increasing word size and sophisticated
optimizations of multiplication units in modern
microprocessors, it becomes increasingly likely that
they contain some undetected bugs. This was
https://secure.wikileaks.org/wiki/On_the_take_and_loving_it
Grant code 'MDA904' - National Security Agency
The NSA has pushed tens or hundreds of millions into the academy
through research grants using one particular grant code. ...
John
' =JeffH ' wrote:
From: John Young [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[...]
Research Announcement: Microprocessor Bugs Can Be Security Disasters
[...]
A similar attack can be applied to any security scheme based on
discrete logs modulo a prime, and to any security scheme based on
elliptic curves (in which we can
Of possible interest...
=JeffH
Ross Anderson: Searching For Evil
http://youtube.com/watch?v=7WlHhZUayUw
Google Tech Talks
August 23, 2007
ABSTRACT
Computer security has recently imported a lot of ideas from economics,
psychology and sociology, leading to fresh insights and new tools. I will
