This increases the likely-hood that flame is state sponsored. It still seems surprising that in the wild malware would use a novel crypto result. The risk of pu

This increases the likely-hood that flame is state sponsored. It still seems surprising that in the wild malware would use a novel crypto result. The risk of publicly releasing the technique is fairly high. Perhaps with md5 being phased out, the technique was losing value quickly regardless. If info warfare becomes more widespread I wonder if mining malware for crypto analysis results could be a valuable research technique.