Thanks Hans. I read the article at the url you gave and found this link which has all the gory details. http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~tromer/acoustic/ On 12/18/2013 11:07 AM, der.hans wrote: > moin moin, > > Modern safe-cracking, listening to decryption to discover the private > key. > > http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-devel/2013-December/028102.html > > ciao, > > der.hans -- "I get my copy of the daily paper, look at the obituaries page, and if I’m not there, I carry on as usual." Patrick Moore