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Re: [Full-disclosure] [SECURITY] [DSA 2502-1] python-crypto security update



On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> ...
> Package        : python-crypto
> Vulnerability  : programming error...
> It was discovered that that the ElGamal code in PythonCrypto, a
> collection of cryptographic algorithms and protocols for Python used
> insecure insufficient prime numbers in key generation

i wish i had a dollar for every not-so-random random number generator
error that has transpired the last few years. i could pay for DEF CON.
;)

decades pass, and yet people still fuck up the fundamentals. regularly...

how many of you fools mix a hw entropy source into your crypto keying?

ever hear of 82802? XSTORE? RDRAND? lava lamps?

</cry>

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