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[Cryptography] Broken RNG Generating Taiwanese Citizen Digital
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kent Borg)
Mon Sep 16 13:34:53 2013
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Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 12:06:10 -0400
From: Kent Borg <kentborg@borg.org>
To: Cryptography List <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
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Broken RNG-time again: In looking 2.2 million certificates, researchers
found reused primes in 103 of them.
News story:
http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/09/fatal-crypto-flaw-in-some-government-certified-smartcards-makes-forgery-a-snap/
Original paper: http://smartfacts.cr.yp.to/smartfacts-20130916.pdf
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