- Researchers conduct audit of public keys used to protect HTTPS and find over 12500 that have a single prime factor in common https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/02/researchers-ssl-observatory-cryptographic-vulnerabilities 18 comments netsec
- A team of researchers conducted an audit of the public keys used to protect HTTPS. Lenstra's team has discovered tens of thousands of keys that offer effectively no security due to weak random number generation algorithms. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/02/researchers-ssl-observatory-cryptographic-vulnerabilities 5 comments technology
Linked pages
- http://eprint.iacr.org/2012/064.pdf 59 comments
- Random number generation - Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_number_generation 54 comments
- Man-in-the-middle attack - Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-in-the-middle_attack 26 comments
- Euclidean algorithm - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclidean_algorithm 16 comments
- New research: There's no need to panic over factorable keys-just mind your Ps and Qs - Freedom to Tinker https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/nadiah/new-research-theres-no-need-panic-over-factorable-keys-just-mind-your-ps-and-qs/ 1 comment
- NLnet; Welcome to NLnet Foundation https://nlnet.nl/ 1 comment
- https://www.eff.org/files/ccc2010.pdf 0 comments
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