Cybersecurity and Cryptography
Side-channel attacks are techniques used to gain information from a cryptographic system by analyzing the physical implementation of the system rather than exploiting weaknesses in the algorithms themselves. These attacks often target information such as timing data, power consumption, electromagnetic leaks, or even sound, to infer secret keys or other sensitive data. This makes side-channel attacks particularly dangerous because they can bypass traditional cryptographic defenses by taking advantage of unintentional information leakage.
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