Re: IGE mode is broken (Re: IGE mode in OpenSSL)

2006-09-25 Thread James A. Donald
On 9/9/06, Adam Back [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IGE if this description summarized by Travis is correct, appears to be a re-invention of Anton Stiglic and my proposed FREE-MAC mode. However the FREE-MAC mode (below described as IGE) was broken back in Mar 2000 or maybe earlier by Gligor,

Re: Exponent 3 damage spreads...

2006-09-25 Thread Philipp Gühring
Hi, We have been researching, which vendors were generating Exponent 3 keys, and we found the following until now: * Cisco 3000 VPN Concentrator * CSP11 * AN.ON / JAP (they told me they would change it on the next day) (perhaps more to come) My current estimate is that 0.26% of the

Re: A note on vendor reaction speed to the e=3 problem

2006-09-25 Thread Travis H.
On 9/15/06, Taral [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *That* is the Right Way To Do It. If there are variable parts (like hash OID, perhaps), parse them out, then regenerate the signature data and compare it byte-for-byte with the decrypted signature. You know, this sort of reminds me of a problem with

Re: Exponent 3 damage spreads...

2006-09-25 Thread Simon Josefsson
Leichter, Jerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I agree that there are two issues, and they need to be treated properly. The first - including data after the ASN.1 blob in the signature computation but then ignoring it in determining the semantics - is, I'll argue, an implementation error. You