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Security Flaw in Infineon Smart Cards and TPMs
2017-10-17 14:24

A security flaw in Infineon smart cards and TPMs allows an attacker to recover private keys from the public keys. Basically, the key generation algorithm sometimes creates public keys that are vulnerable to Coppersmith's attack: While all keys generated with the library are much weaker than they should be, it's not currently practical to factorize all of them. For example,...


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