openpgp dsa subliminal key reconstructor

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Wed Aug 4 10:30:56 CEST 2004


On Wed, 4 Aug 2004 01:56:06 -0400 (EDT), Atom 'Smasher' said:

> http://www.aculei.net/~shardy/code/subdsakey.pl

Where is the news?  It is a well understood property of the ElGamal
signing scheme. You don't even need such a channel, you may also
subvert the signing program to use the same value for k more than one
time.  There are anyway uncounted ways to use subliminal channels to
export private keys.

  Werner




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