-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Thu, 31 Oct 1996, Alan wrote:
This was in the 10/28 issue of Network World Infusion. Did anyone else see it?
Two eminent Israeli cryptographers last week sent a shock wave through security circles with the announcement that they had figured out a way to extract private Data Encryption Standard (DES) encryption keys from such things as PCs and smart cards.
[ snip ] ....... Yes. I saw it in the local papers today. A team from ISS also found that smart cards could be hacked by subjecting it to some radiation and comparing error messages with the real ones using mathematical models. Chua Loong Koon ____ National University Edmund _.' " of Singapore _____________________ | .. o | _________________________ / chualoon@iscs.nus.sg |/ | |/ isc50045@leonis.nus.sg \ | http://www.iscs.nus.sg/~chualoon | ( "If you want change, be the change" ) ( finger chualoon@decunx.iscs.nus.sg for PGP key ) \/^\/^\/^\/^\/^\/^\/^\/-- /______\ --\/^\/^\/^\/^\/^\/^\/^\/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBMnlfgY+i+MjeWkMRAQHWUQQA4E+W3CRFQyV9VfOX+5TKy2UR4+Ktx7XY z3SBM4q1e/9LseyZatY9FEHG8PWPJjkagfhZjL6gdHiXqskmE6Cap3mbApXgbr8K KmUMhh2E0Ro2JOsY8LDZkZPEauybPw0OGWT/qi2vVYKjeHpZ7wlsVtpOb+fO2arw qt/KZzW3Ysw= =wuHe -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----