ID: IRCNE2011061131
Date: 2011-06-07
According to “TechWorld”, Microsoft has upgraded the weak encryption found on today’s mass-market wireless keyboards with a new design that uses 128-bit AES to secure communication to and from the PC.
What marks it out is the ability to encrypt every keystrokes using the same encryption technology that is industry-standard in many other security systems, from hard disks to Wi-Fi.
Hitherto, keyboard encryption has been weak, with keys chosen from a small palette of possibilities, with one hacking group claiming in 2009 that it had developed a tool specifically to sniff keystrokes from Microsoft keyboards at a range up to a 10 metres.
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