Un'interessante blog post di Nadia Heninger di UC San Diego:

https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/nadiah/new-research-theres-no-need-panic-over-factorable-keys-just-mind-your-ps-and-qs

Sembra che il problema sollevato da Lenstra riguardi soprattutto
embedded devices:

"However, there's no need to panic as this problem mainly affects
various kinds of embedded devices such as routers and VPN devices, not
full-blown web servers. (It's certainly not, as suggested in the New
York Times, any reason to have diminished confidence in the security
of web-based commerce.) Unfortunately, we've found vulnerable devices
from nearly every major manufacturer and we suspect that more than
200,000 devices, representing 4.1% of the SSL keys in our dataset,
were generated with poor entropy. Any weak keys found to be generated
by a device suggests that the entire class of devices may be
vulnerable upon further analysis."

Si tratta di una ricerca parallela a quella di Lenstra & C; il livello
di dettaglio di questo post è notevole (data la necessità contingente
di riservatezza).

ciao,
rob
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