Received: from sog-mx-3.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com ([172.29.43.193] helo=mx.sourceforge.net) by sfs-ml-2.v29.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1WSRk1-0006Kz-3b for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 13:50:09 +0000 Received-SPF: pass (sog-mx-3.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com: domain of gmail.com designates 209.85.213.41 as permitted sender) client-ip=209.85.213.41; envelope-from=gavinandresen@gmail.com; helo=mail-yh0-f41.google.com; Received: from mail-yh0-f41.google.com ([209.85.213.41]) by sog-mx-3.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtps (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) id 1WSRk0-0002fl-Bw for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 13:50:09 +0000 Received: by mail-yh0-f41.google.com with SMTP id v1so451835yhn.14 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 06:50:02 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.236.119.99 with SMTP id m63mr35127412yhh.65.1395755402763; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 06:50:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.170.133.195 with HTTP; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 06:50:02 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20140325133925.GW3180@nl.grid.coop> References: <0720C223-E9DD-4E76-AD6F-0308CA5B5289@gmail.com> <7E50E1D6-3A9F-419B-B01E-50C6DE044E0F@gmail.com> <20140325133925.GW3180@nl.grid.coop> Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 09:50:02 -0400 Message-ID: From: Gavin Andresen To: Troy Benjegerdes Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=20cf3011e287f9a49004f56ea053 X-Spam-Score: -0.6 (/) X-Spam-Report: Spam Filtering performed by mx.sourceforge.net. See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. -1.5 SPF_CHECK_PASS SPF reports sender host as permitted sender for sender-domain 0.0 FREEMAIL_FROM Sender email is commonly abused enduser mail provider (gavinandresen[at]gmail.com) -0.0 SPF_PASS SPF: sender matches SPF record 1.0 HTML_MESSAGE BODY: HTML included in message -0.1 DKIM_VALID_AU Message has a valid DKIM or DK signature from author's domain 0.1 DKIM_SIGNED Message has a DKIM or DK signature, not necessarily valid -0.1 DKIM_VALID Message has at least one valid DKIM or DK signature X-Headers-End: 1WSRk0-0002fl-Bw Cc: Bitcoin Dev Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] New side channel attack that can recover Bitcoin keys X-BeenThere: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 13:50:09 -0000 --20cf3011e287f9a49004f56ea053 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Y'all are getting deep into tinfoil-wearing-hat-conspiracy-theory territory. If you are worried about the NSA compromising your hardware or software, then use multisig transactions and sign on diverse hardware/software stacks. Generate the multiple private keys on different hardware/software stacks, too. Or, in other words, eliminate the single point of failure and you will mitigate whole families of possible attacks, from "NSA compromised the hardware random number generator in my CPU" to "NSA is listening to EMF radiation coming from my dedicated server in my data center" to the much more likely "data center employee is tricked into letting somebody have access to my dedicated server." -- -- Gavin Andresen --20cf3011e287f9a49004f56ea053 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Y'all are getting deep into= tinfoil-wearing-hat-conspiracy-theory territory.

If you are worried about the NS= A compromising your hardware or software, then use multisig transactions an= d
sign on diverse hardware/software stacks. Genera= te the multiple private keys on different hardware/software
stacks, too.

Or, in other words, eliminate the single point of failure and you will miti= gate whole families of possible attacks,
fr= om "NSA compromised the hardware random number generator in my CPU&quo= t; to "NSA is listening to EMF
radiation coming from my dedicated server in my = data center" to the much more likely "data center employee
<= div class=3D"gmail_extra">is tricked into letting somebody have access to m= y dedicated server."

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Gavin Andresen
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