Public and Private key Library Breached
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This Monday: Public and Private Keys have been broken
Click baity I know : arstechnica news article.
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To summarize, any TPM or RSA tokens using the Infineon library for encryption is able to be broken in as little as 100 years on a consumer grade desktop.
Obviously this can be greatly decreased by splitting up the work load among a farm of systems or by using a higher end system (government grade servers) may be able to crack a 4096-bit key in a matter of minutes or less.
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Worth noting in order to decypher any communication all that is needed is the public key.
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Not aware of anyone using that library. A major find, of course, but don't know anyone affected. Thank goodness for open source, once again :)
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Can't help but point out that the author of the article doesn't know what "ironic" means.
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@scottalanmiller said in Public and Private key Library Breached:
Can't help but point out that the author of the article doesn't know what "ironic" means.
Now I have to read it. LOL
Edit: It isn't ironic when TPM, which is created to be more secure than standard, is, in fact, less secure?
