http://RecentHacks.com
This new site has a timeline of hacking attacks (Target, Sony, Tesla, etc.).
You can click on an attack and see a summary. It starts early 2013. Though
it's a new site, I find it surprisingly useful -- both to recall what an attack
was, and to get a feel for the range
http://www.usc.edu/uscnews/newsroom/news_release.php?id=3017
I didn't read more than the above, but one imagines
that the trick is in handling compression. With bmp, the following immediately
comes to mind: Take a seed, generate
a mask and xor it with the bmp pixels. Now the pic is white
There seems to be a bit of uncertainty about this attack. I'm hearing a lot of
misunderstanding from customers. Here is my summary. I'll first give a
concrete example explaining key wrap and unwrap. Skip this post if you know
all this stuff. Then I'll generalize a bit, and finally comment
James A. Donald wrote:
I see no valid case for on chip whitening. Whitening looks like a classic
job for
software. Why
waste chip real estate on something that will only be used
On that Intel forum site someone pointed to, one of the Intel guys said with
respect to the whitening and
Paper by Lenstra, Hughes, Augier, Bos, Kleinjung, and Wachter finds that two
out of every one thousand RSA moduli that they collected from the web offer no
security. An astonishing number of generated pairs of primes have a prime in
common. Once again, it shows the importance of proper
where well-intentioned systems are can be too
rigid and get ignored. What am I missing?
Mike N
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