RSA compromise via the processor branch prediction module

From: Howie Goodell <howie...._at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 08:56:49 +0100

A single execution of an unprivileged spy process revealed 508 bits of
a 512-bit RSA key by monitoring when the branch prediction algorithm
failed in a simultaneously-running RSA process. Probably of more than
academic interest; since it sounds like this could form the basis of
real malware applications for compromising RSA keys:

http://eprint.iacr.org/2006/351

Howard Goodell

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