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Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 20:14:58 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: GnuPG 1.4.16 fixes RSA key extraction via acoustic side channel (CVE-2013-4576)

Hi,

GnuPG 1.4.16 was released today with a curious security fix:

http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-devel/2013-December/028102.html

 * Fixed the RSA Key Extraction via Low-Bandwidth Acoustic
   Cryptanalysis attack as described by Genkin, Shamir, and Tromer.
   See <http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~tromer/acoustic/>.  [CVE-2013-4576]

Direct link to paper (8 MB; the website feels very slow at the moment):

http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~tromer/papers/acoustic-20131218.pdf

Copy on SlideShare:

http://www.slideshare.net/daniel_bilar/acoustic-20131218

Alexander

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