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Your LEDs Could Be Leaking Your Encryption Keys!

Cracking a PQC and an ECDSA Key using Colour

Prof Bill Buchanan OBE FRSE
3 min readJun 22, 2023

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The brute forcing of an encryption key will typically take billions and billions of years to crack. But, if there’s a leakage of some of the information around the key, this could be cut to just minutes. One of the most useful attacks is a side channel attack, which involves some leakage through a secondary…

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Prof Bill Buchanan OBE FRSE

Professor of Cryptography. Serial innovator. Believer in fairness, justice & freedom. Based in Edinburgh. Old World Breaker. New World Creator. Building trust.