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Comment by arielby

This is the well-known CRT fault attack, nothing new. SSL implementations that don't verify their signatures leak the private key if their signature routine has a bug - this is essentially a hardware problem. Verifying your signatures is fast, though, so doing it is worthwhile hardening (NSA can potentially use cosmic rays for this attack, probably nobody else).

The findings are very similar to the classic "Ron was wrong, Whit is right" paper - if you scan the entire Internet, you will find broken hardware. You will also find SSH servers with their root password being `12345678`.

parent arielby 11 years ago

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