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Re: Power analysis of AES candidates
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Honig)
Tue Sep 14 21:02:36 1999
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 17:12:16 -0700
To: Eugene Leitl <eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de>,
John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com>
From: David Honig <honig@sprynet.com>
Cc: "Cryptography@C2. Net" <cryptography@c2.net>
In-Reply-To: <14302.50453.657439.572646@lrz.de>
At 02:58 PM 9/14/99 -0700, Eugene Leitl wrote:
>You can't do differential power analysis if you supply power
>photonically to an encapsulated unit.
Interesting. Such supplies have been proposed for medical gear, where you
need absolute isolation. Intense light, reflector,
Si cells. A few cm of air. Baroque and inefficient, yes..
