Timeline for How does a backdoor in the RNG enable an attacker to break encryption protocols?
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| Dec 22, 2013 at 19:05 | comment | added | user11022 | @e-sushi I am certainly not asking for a "how to hack" manual. Just want to clarify in more detail why a backdoor in an RNG is such a big deal. For example, the Schneier article from the first comment says "To put that in real terms, you only need to monitor one TLS internet encryption connection in order to crack the security of that protocol." That doesn't seem obvious to me, although thanks to the answer below I understand better. | |
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| Dec 22, 2013 at 18:47 | answer | added | user11040 | timeline score: 1 | |
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| Dec 22, 2013 at 6:17 | comment | added | e-sushi | "Can someone walk through the steps of how this allows an attacker to actually read encrypted packets?" comes pretty close to being off-topic, because a practical step-by-step walk-through of how an attacker can intercept and decrypt packets would quickly become a how-to-hack manual. Besides, if anywhere, such security questions about packet interception would belong on Security.SE… but I doubt you'll get a practical walk through on How-To-Intercept-And-Reverse-Engineer-Encrypted-Packets there either. | |
| Dec 22, 2013 at 4:15 | comment | added | user11022 | @HenrickHellström Thanks for the article, but it doesn't seem explain how a backdoor in the RNG could be used to actually break any encryption protocols. | |
| Dec 22, 2013 at 1:58 | comment | added | Henrick Hellström | schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/11/the_strange_sto.html | |
| Dec 21, 2013 at 22:33 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackCrypto/status/414524055212277760 | ||
| Dec 21, 2013 at 20:58 | history | edited | user11022 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 21, 2013 at 19:35 | history | edited | Cryptographeur | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 21, 2013 at 19:05 | history | asked | user11022 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |