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mike acker
November 6th, 2012, 12:32 PM
an article on SC Mag (http://www.scmagazine.com.au/News/322042,co-lo-vms-busted-by-crypto-attack.aspx) this morning discusses stealing crypto keys from CPU cache

what will they think of next?


It did this by targeting shared hardware resources, specifically the L1 instruction cache, which revealed enough information based on alternate process execution between the target and attacker to build a crypto key.

sffvba[e0rt
November 6th, 2012, 11:26 PM
Where there is a will, there is a way...


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