[computerex]

I know this is a side channel attack. I know people have used acoustic analysis to retrieve 4096 bit RSA keys, but the attack outlined in the paper is more feasible in real life situations, and systems do get compromised due to implementation details. AES might not be broken as a whole but that doesn't mean you can't attack specific usages.

AES isn't proven to be secure. I don't know about $10k, but I would not bet my life on any hash function not being broken.