http://cdn.wccftech.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/rsa-broken-740x494.jpgGoogle, Microsoft, HP, and others hit by a crippling 5-yr-old encryption flaw
ROCA: Public key to calculate private key
The 5-year-old weakness essentially enables attackers to calculate the private portion of the key using nothing but the public part. “In public key cryptography, a fundamental property is that public keys really are public – you can give them to anyone without any impact in security,” Graham Steel, CEO of encryption consultancy firm Cryptosense, said. “In this work, that property is completely broken.”
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