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Acoustic cryptanalysis is a type of side channel attack which exploits sounds emitted by computers or machines.

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How to avoid side channel attacks when handling large numbers?

For cryptography, the platforms have limited size as 32 or 64-bit operations. We definitely need big numbers to implement the encryption/decryption and digital signatures for cryptosystems like RSA, ...
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Can we ensure the security of a crypto-algorithm and -implementaton against acoustic cryptanalysis?

Like people always say: “Attacks only get worse…” — which is why I'm asking early. I have been reading the paper “RSA Key Extraction via Low-Bandwidth Acoustic Cryptanalysis” published December 18, ...
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