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Bug volume in crypto is extremely high. How many developers reuse IVs in stream ciphers? How many blindly use AES or somesuch other symmetric library and then build in no authentication whatsoever? How many antequated implementations of RSA are used in practice today (see recent Bleichenbacher flaw in NSS)? How many times are poor chaining modes for block ciphers chosen? How many implementations of [anything] fail on side cases (elliptic curves) or massively leak through side channels? How many DH-family protocols miss checks for identity inputs?

The answer is a lot.

parent xnull 12 years ago

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