Putty vulnerability: bias in ECDSA deterministic nonce generation leads to compromise of NIST P521 keys with ~60 signatures

www.chiark.greenend.org.uk

Putty vulnerability: bias in ECDSA deterministic nonce generation leads to compromise of NIST P521 keys with ~60 signatures

www.chiark.greenend.org.uk

Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlM to

Cryptography@lemmy.mlEnglish · 8 months ago

PuTTY vulnerability vuln-p521-bias

www.chiark.greenend.org.uk

writeup from the researcher who discovered this: https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/04/15/6

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