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Message-ID: <5432A875.1000103@reactos.org>
Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2014 16:34:29 +0200
From: Pierre Schweitzer <pierre@...ctos.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: OpenSSL RSA 1024 bits implementation broken?

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Following the information on that ML it appears not to be true.
Or at least, there's no obvious evidence it happened. And lack of
appropriate communication from reporter doesn't help getting rid of
doubts.
Unless I missed something from the thread you pointed?

On 10/06/2014 03:39 PM, Jeremy Stanley wrote:
> On 2014-10-06 11:33:03 +0200 (+0200), Pierre Schweitzer wrote:
>> There appear to have some noise on the Internet regarding a
>> possible flaw in the 1024 bits RSA implementation in OpenSSL
>> which would allow bruteforcing the private key in ~20 minutes.
>> 
>> Does anyone has any information about this? The associated
>> pastebin to the said information is:
>> http://pastebin.com/D8itq6Ff Is this serious?
> 
> It's been picked apart somewhat in a thread[1] on Perry Metzger's 
> moderated cryptography mailing list.
> 
> [1]
> http://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2014-October/023142.html
>
> 
- -- 
Pierre Schweitzer <pierre@...ctos.org>
System & Network Administrator
Senior Kernel Developer
ReactOS Deutschland e.V.
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