Security News > 2017 > July > Researchers Crack 1024-bit RSA Encryption in GnuPG Crypto Library (The Hackers News)
2017-07-04 00:32
Security boffins have discovered a critical vulnerability in a GnuPG cryptographic library that allowed the researchers to completely break RSA-1024 and successfully extract the secret RSA key to decrypt data. Gnu Privacy Guard (GnuPG or GPG) is popular open source encryption software used by many operating systems from Linux and FreeBSD to Windows and macOS X. It's the same software used by
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