A Very Noisy Signal: Intel Circuit Squashes Side-Channel Sniffing

Chipmaker partners with Georgia Tech researchers to produce a low-power circuit that keeps encryption keys safe

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Probe wires are attached to a green circuit board. An oscilloscope displays multiple traces in the background.
The Georgia Tech team concluded that it would take an attacker up to 3,579 times longer to figure out the encryption key for their circuit, compared with a standard model.
Photo: Georgia Institute of Technology