{"id":9719,"date":"2014-01-03T09:04:16","date_gmt":"2014-01-03T17:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=9719"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:11:40","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:11:40","slug":"researchers-crack-4096-bit-rsa-encryption-with-a-microphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/researchers-crack-4096-bit-rsa-encryption-with-a-microphone","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Crack 4096-bit RSA Encryption With a Microphone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"by vcard\"> <a title=\"Posts by Sebastian Anthony\" href=\"http:\/\/www.extremetech.com\/author\/santhony\" rel=\"author\">Sebastian Anthony<\/a> - Extreme Tech<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"intelliTXT\">Security researchers have successfully broken one of the most secure encryption algorithms, 4096-bit RSA, by listening \u2013 yes, with a <em>microphone<\/em> \u2014 to a computer as it decrypts some encrypted data. The attack is fairly simple and can be carried out with rudimentary hardware. The repercussions for the average computer user are minimal, but if you\u2019re a secret agent, power user, or some other kind of encryption-using miscreant, you may want to reach for the Rammstein when decrypting your data.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.extremetech.com\/extreme\/173108-researchers-crack-the-worlds-toughest-encryption-by-listening-to-the-tiny-sounds-made-by-your-computers-cpu\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sebastian Anthony \u2014 Extreme Tech Security researchers have successfully broken one of the most secure encryption algorithms, 4096-bit RSA, by listening \u2013 yes, with a microphone \u2014 to a computer as it decrypts some encrypted data. The attack is fairly simple and can be carried out with rudimentary hardware. The repercussions for the average computer [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1492,1511],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","category-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9719"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65079,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9719\/revisions\/65079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}