The sound of you typing on your keyboard could reveal your password

As if password authentications coffin needed any more nails, researchers in the UK have discovered yet another way to hammer one in. The technique, developed at Durham University, the University of Surrey, and Royal Holloway University of London, builds on previous work to produce a more accurate...

Ubuntu Update for gnupg USN-2059-1

Check for the Version of gnupg OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN20591.nasl 8456 2018-01-18 06:58:40Z teissa $ Ubuntu Update for gnupg USN-2059-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright C 2013 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; y...

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 12.04 LTS / 12.10 / 13.04 / 13.10 : gnupg vulnerability (USN-2059-1)

Daniel Genkin, Adi Shamir, and Eran Tromer discovered that GnuPG was susceptible to an adaptive chosen ciphertext attack via acoustic emanations. A local attacker could use this attack to possibly recover private keys. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description blo...

USN-2059-1: GnuPG vulnerability

Daniel Genkin, Adi Shamir, and Eran Tromer discovered that GnuPG was susceptible to an adaptive chosen ciphertext attack via acoustic emanations. A local attacker could use this attack to possibly recover private keys...

gnupg -- RSA Key Extraction via Low-Bandwidth Acoustic Cryptanalysis attack

Werner Koch reports: CVE-2013-4576 has been assigned to this security bug. The paper describes two attacks. The first attack allows to distinguish keys: An attacker is able to notice which key is currently used for decryption. This is in general not a problem but may be used to reveal the...