[Cryptography] Side channel attack on OpenSSL ECDSA on iOS and Android

[Perry E. Metzger]

On Fri, 4 Mar 2016 01:13:45 +0000 Peter Gutmann
<pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
> Perry E. Metzger <perry at piermont.com> writes:
> 
> >For example, as was mentioned in that posting in this thread, the
> >OpenSSL people are indeed releasing code for several platforms
> >that should be more resistant to side channel attacks.  
> 
> You still really need to address it in hardware to do it properly
> though.

Absolutely. I didn't mean to suggest otherwise. I merely was noting
that the OpenSSL people *are* trying to do their best on this given
the limitations, and the selective quotation of what they said wasn't
fair.

Perry
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