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Re: Be careful with that axe, Eugene
At 9:11 AM -0800 3/16/04, Jon Callas wrote:
>I put in this note in -11 in security considerations about PKCS1
>padding:
>
> * PKCS1 has been found to be vulnerable to attacks in which a
> system reports that errors in padding differently from errors in
> decryption becomes a random oracle that can leak the private key
> in mere millions of queries. [...]
I assume that the 2 words "reports that" in the 2nd line should
be switched ("that reports"), otherwise the text does not make
sense to me.
- Wolfgang Redtenbacher