Detecting attempts to decrypt with incorrect secret key in OWASP ESAPI
Peter Gutmann
pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz
Thu Sep 17 01:20:33 EDT 2009
"Kevin W. Wall" <kevin.w.wall at gmail.com> writes:
>(Obviously some of these padding schemes such as OAEP are not suitable with
>symmetric ciphers. Or at least I don't think they are.)
You'd be surprised at what JCE developers will implement just because they
can, and what therefore gets used by application developers. I've seen
RSA-CBC used on more than one occasion.
(No, that's not a typo, RSA in CBC mode. The app developers wondered why it
was so slow).
Peter.
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