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> It means every instance of Kaspersky Password Manager in the world will generate the exact same password at a given second. Whoa. That's just ... Wow.
by verytrivial 5y ago
> It means every instance of Kaspersky Password Manager in the world will generate the exact same password at a given second.
Whoa. That's just ... Wow.
- tomrod 5y agoI recall this was an issue too for certain RSA tokens.
- proactivesvcs 5y ago"In the context of previous allegations about RSA and USA intelligence, there's some chance these errors were intentionally introduced." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_Security#Relationship_with_NSA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_Security#Relationship_with...
- dogma1138 5y agoThat was because some RSA tokens had identical seeds, it was only affecting some of the older time based tokens.
- tomrod 5y agoPrecisely what I recall now -- the reason behind it I had forgotten. Thanks!
- enraged_camel 5y agoThe real fun thing would be if we discovered that they deliberately added the 1+ second animation to hide the bug. :)
- muthdra 5y ago31536000 seconds in a year. Sounds crackable.
- golergka 5y agoNew in Russia, Kaspersky was used to be known as one of the places where the smartest, math-savvy developers went. So either they have completely changed in the last few years, or it was completely intentional.
- 0ld 5y agoKaspersky is a former KGB officer And, as everyone in the former USSR knows, there is no such thing as a former KGB officer