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Researchers steal secret RSA encryption keys in Amazon’s cloud

07
Oct
2015

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As thousands of cloud fanatics descend on Las Vegas this week for ’s , researchers in Massachusetts are raising new questions about the security of all multi-tenant cloud environments.

A group of professors at demonstrated in a recently published paper named “Seriously, get off my cloud! Cross-VM RSA Key Recovery in a Public Cloud,” a proof of concept hack of secret cryptography keys used in an virtual machine. The now-patched flaw – which was not specific to AWS — showed that a hacker could theoretically gain a user’s secret keys that are used to encrypt sensitive .

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