1996-02-23 - Re: Schneier Attacks

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From: Mike Tighe <tighe@spectrum.titan.com>
To: jya@pipeline.com (John Young)
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UTC Datetime: 1996-02-23 08:00:58 UTC
Raw Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 16:00:58 +0800

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From: Mike Tighe <tighe@spectrum.titan.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 16:00:58 +0800
To: jya@pipeline.com (John Young)
Subject: Re: Schneier Attacks
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John Young writes:

>   Schneier says in a March SciAm brief on Kocher's timing
>   attack: "In theory there are other attacks. You can measure
>   power consumption or heat dissipation of a chip; timing is
>   just one way."

You could also count the number of electrons, as well as their direction
across the chips.





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