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Re: [saag] NSA bug in Windows 10

Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz> Fri, 17 January 2020 06:54 UTC

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From: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>
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Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu> writes:

>I remember reading something that involved [...]

Based on, admittedly, zero reading of stuff around this so far (trying to find
some time this weekend), I assume it's of the type covered here:

Digital Signature Schemes with Domain Parameters
https://lasec.epfl.ch/pub/lasec/doc/Vau04b.pdf

Or at least that's one possible vuln that you get from not checking domain
parameters.

Peter.

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