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Reception immediately following
ABSTRACT: Most of the cryptosystems we currently use are highly secure, and cannot be broken by mathematical cryptanalysis. However, over thelast fifteen years researchers have developed many types of physical attacks on their implementations which can easily bypass their mathematical security. In this talk I will survey some of the latest attacks, and show how difficult it is to build a truly secure communication system. The talk will not require any prior knowledge in cryptanalysis.
