Re: [cryptography] Re: Why the exponent 3 error happened:

2006-09-20 Thread Ralf-Philipp Weinmann
On Sep 20, 2006, at 3:10 PM, Kuehn, Ulrich wrote: -BEGIN CERTIFICATE- MIICgzCCAWugAwIBAgIBFzANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQUFADBoMQswCQYDVQQGEwJVUzEl MCMGA1UEChMcU3RhcmZpZWxkIFRlY2hub2xvZ2llcywgSW5jLjEyMDAGA1UECxMp U3RhcmZpZWxkIENsYXNzIDIgQ2VydGlmaWNhdGlvbiBBdXRob3JpdHkwHhcNMDYw ODE5MTY1MTMwWhcNMDYxMD

RE: [cryptography] Re: Why the exponent 3 error happened:

2006-09-20 Thread Kuehn, Ulrich
> From: Ralf-Philipp Weinmann > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] > Unfortunately we only found out that there has been prior art > by Yutaka Oiwa et al. *AFTER* we successfully forged a > certificate using this method (we being Andrei Pyshkin, Erik > Tews and myself). > > The certificate we

Re: [cryptography] Re: Why the exponent 3 error happened:

2006-09-19 Thread Ralf-Philipp Weinmann
On Sep 16, 2006, at 11:31 PM, Eric Young wrote: This is a question I would not mind having answered; while the exponent 3 attack works when there are low bits to 'modify', there has been talk of an attack where the ASN.1 is correctly right justified (hash is the least significant bytes), b

Re: [cryptography] Re: Why the exponent 3 error happened:

2006-09-17 Thread Eric Young
James A. Donald wrote: -- James A. Donald wrote: >> Code is going wrong because ASN.1 can contain >> complicated malicious information to cause code to go >> wrong. If we do not have that information, or simply >> ignore it, no problem. Ben Laurie wrote: > This is incorrect. The simple form