[Cryptography] Broken RNG Generating Taiwanese Citizen Digital Certificates

Kent Borg kentborg at borg.org
Mon Sep 16 12:06:10 EDT 2013


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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