Cracking RSA by listening to the wires and radio waves
Published in
4 min readSep 22, 2018
A recent paper showed that it is possible to determine the private key of RSA by simply listening to the radio waves emitted from a mobile phone. This is because the RSA method uses multiply and square operations. This can then be observed on a power trace as the processor consumes different amounts of electrical power as it performs the calculations.