Looking for silver linings in the CVE-2020-0601 crypto vulnerability
Is there some good news hidden in the story of the CVE-2020-0601 crypto vulnerability? Continue reading Looking for silver linings in the CVE-2020-0601 crypto vulnerability
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How does CVE-2020-0601 (ChainOfFools/CurveBall) work to undermine ECC?
What is the recently patched and disclosed Windows 10 OS family Crypt.dll vulnerability CVE-2020-0601, nicknamed ChainOfFools and/or Curveball? I’ve read up on it and while I understand the basics (deriving an alternative private key from … Continue reading How does CVE-2020-0601 (ChainOfFools/CurveBall) work to undermine ECC?
Farting Baseball; From the Makers of Self-Solving Rubik’s Cube
Some hackers have a style all their own that is immediately recognizable from one project to the next. For instance, you can tell a [Takashi Kaburagi] by its insides. The behavior of his Farting Baseball project (machine translation) is amusing, but the joke is only skin deep. Look inside and …read more
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