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It took me the entire article to figure out they were talking about the exfiltration of cryptographic keys via power side channels and not hard coded internet p
by nonrandomstring 5y ago
It took me the entire article to figure out they were talking about
the exfiltration of cryptographic keys via power side channels and not
hard coded internet protocol addresses. I do wish people would stop
with this lazy-arsed use of "IP" to stand in for any kind of data they
don't know the proper name for.
- bri3d 5y agoIP has a well-understood and specific meaning in the VLSI / chip design industry, it's not a lazy placeholder term and the usual EEJournal reader would be unlikely to confuse it with the Internet Protocol.
- ncmncm 5y agoExtracting crypto keys is just one high-value example use for the technique. It is easy to think of others.
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- CuriousCosmic 5y agoFYI in the HDL/ FPA & ASIC design space, IP is short for Intellectual Property and the best analogue from the software space would be a "software library". IP are often black boxes akin to proprietary software libs. It's a dumb name but it has been in use for decades now.