RSA keys not as random as they should be

J65nko · #1 **(View Single Post)** 16th February 2012

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A team of cryptographic experts has analysed more than 10 million public keys and discovered serious problems in some of the X509 certificates it collected. This is because some keys were far less random than they should have been – more than 12,000 were easily crackable.

J65nko · #2 **(View Single Post)** 16th February 2012

See also http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/02...ypto_security/

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