Re: [TSCM-L] {4605} Solution for Secure Land Line?

From: Thomas Shaddack <tsc..._at_shaddack.mauriceward.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:23:36 +0100 (CET)

> Without even looking at the stuff, let me throw in the air a TSCM-relevant
> aspect of crypto most people haven't seriously thought about, with my guess
> being that they haven't either: code timing attacks. In real time
> communication those are particularly insidious, because they can be evoked
> with very little interfering energy, and are prone to leading to
> retransmissions which involve the cryptographic circuitry/code.

We also should not forget a possible point of compromise: the random
number generator itself.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_number_generator_attack
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CryptGenRandom

An important concept somewhat related to other sub-topic of this thread is
deniable encryption.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deniable_encryption
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