The Debian PGP disaster that almost was
A year ago, I wrote about the Debian OpenSSL PRNG bug that reduced the entropy of its random seed to 15 bits. There was a little-noticed part of the advisory that said all DSA keys used on the affected systems should be considered compromised. More here
DSA is a public-key signature algorithm. Unlike RSA, it isn’t useful for encryption or key exchange. Like other public key algorithms, it is extremely sensitive to the choice of parameters. I’ve written about RSA signature flaws (1, 2, 3) that resulted from too much ambiguity in how a signature verify operation was interpreted.
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