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Comment by Nimi

Is there a writeup describing the exact timing side channel? The advisory states that the vulnerability affects all RSA padding modes, which seems to imply non-constant-time BigNum operations. However, OpenSSL implemented RSA blinding even before the fix, which is supposed to prevent those class of problems. So this should be interesting :-)

(I did find the commit fixing it, but it's huge, and I can't follow the change: https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/b1892d21f8f0435deb...

parent Nimi 3 years ago

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