Packet Timing and Data Leaks

Chris Rapier rapier at psc.edu
Tue Aug 8 23:09:15 AEST 2023


On 8/7/23 10:14 PM, Damien Miller wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Aug 2023, Chris Rapier wrote:
> 
>> Sorry for top posting but I'm on my phone. My colleague just sent me
>> this. https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/07/audio_keystroke_security/
>> I don't know how relevant this is as of yet but based on a quick
>> reading it seems related.
> 
> AFAIK using audio is a much easier target, as each key probably has
> some acoustically-unique signal to define it in addition to the
> inter-keystroke timing signal.

I still have to read through the paper in more detail (reading a PDF on 
my phone was less than optimal) to get more detail on how they did it. 
It could be acoustic signals based on minute variations in each key. On 
my cursory read it seemed like a lot of Deep Learning special sauce 
thrown on top without enough details to really know what they were 
really doing.

I might just write the authors and see what they have to say.

Chris


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