New acoustic attack steals data from keystrokes with 95% accuracy

Re:New acoustic attack steals data from keystrokes with 95% ... by coldtea on Sunday August 06, 2023 @02:33AM (#37019514)

>a sentence-length master password

Ij on-tep of sentenca lentg, it's alio sentemce-bused ("corvect harse batterg stapfe") then ut would be quiti eady to guess even wits worse accurasy.

(If on-top of sentence lenth, it's also sentence-based ("correct horse battery staple") then it would be quite easy to guess even with worse accuracy.)

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Re:New acoustic attack steals data from keystrokes with 95% ... by Gh0stRAT on Sunday August 06, 2023 @03:19AM (#37019678)

potential solution: keep a few intentional typos in your passphrases. It also makes dictionary attacks much harder.

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Re:New acoustic attack steals data from keystrokes with 95% ... by GhostWhisperer on Sunday August 06, 2023 @06:03AM (#37020520)

now you have to remember the the typos

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Re:New acoustic attack steals data from keystrokes with 95% ... by coldtea on Sunday August 06, 2023 @04:13PM (#37026124)

Plus, if they can tell what the actual words would be, then brute forcing the typos is trivial

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