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The research doesn't necessarily imply that any typical device has such a high failure probability. From the paper: > The three private keys revealed by the 11
by teraflop 4y ago
The research doesn't necessarily imply that any typical device has such a high failure probability. From the paper:
> The three private keys revealed by the 11 faulty [RSA] signatures in our [passively observed] data were associated with three certificates that were served from four different IP addresses associated with Baidu. [...]
> After we disclosed to Baidu, they informed us that the traffic we observed was between the clients and Baidu’s golang-based L7 load balancer BFE which offloads cryptographic operations like signature generation to a hardware accelerator. [...] Based on the temporal pattern of signature errors we observed, we hypothesize that the errors may have been due to a single failing hardware component which then passed vulnerable signatures through the unprotected software implementation.
- WoahNoun 4y agoYea it's just a coincidence that most of the key leaks identified in a US university campus internet are from Baidu. Just a random hardware error, nothing suspicious at all...