Mar 5, 2010 -

GSRC researchers (Bertacco, Austin, and Pellegrini) expose way to zap RSA security scheme

This team recently demonstrated and disclosed a fault-based attack to the very popular RSA authentication algorithm, which they inflicted on the extremely popular OpenSSL software library. Their technique can extract a private key from a system by manipulating the voltage supply. They demonstrated that when a single-bit error occurs in the multiplication of the OpenSSL RSA algorithm, the system leaks 4-bits of the private key to the outside world.

See the article in Network World