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Original date posted:2018-04-09 š Original message:These issues all stem from ...
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Original date posted:2018-04-09
š Original message:These issues all stem from the RC4-based RNG implementation (with insecure
fallback entropy) in Tom Wu's jsbn library, published here:
http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~tjw/jsbn/Please refer to Tom Wu's URL, or this more up-to-date fork of Tom Wu's code
(published to NPM):
https://github.com/andyperlitch/jsbn -- my repository on
GitHub was only ever intended to be a straight mirror of Tom Wu's code (created
over 7 years ago!). I'll probably delete my mirror repository given that there
are now better JavaScript bignum alternatives, and in light of this report.
Jason
> On 9 Apr 2018, at 22:11, mus at musalbas.com wrote:
>
> Here's the code in question:
https://github.com/jasondavies/jsbn/pull/7>
> Best,
>
> Mustafa
--
Jason Davies,
http://www.jasondavies.com/Published at
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Original date posted:2018-04-09\nš Original message:These issues all stem from the RC4-based RNG implementation (with insecure\nfallback entropy) in Tom Wu's jsbn library, published here:\nhttp://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~tjw/jsbn/\n\nPlease refer to Tom Wu's URL, or this more up-to-date fork of Tom Wu's code\n(published to NPM): https://github.com/andyperlitch/jsbn -- my repository on\nGitHub was only ever intended to be a straight mirror of Tom Wu's code (created\nover 7 years ago!). I'll probably delete my mirror repository given that there\nare now better JavaScript bignum alternatives, and in light of this report.\n\nJason\n\n\u003e On 9 Apr 2018, at 22:11, mus at musalbas.com wrote:\n\u003e \n\u003e Here's the code in question: https://github.com/jasondavies/jsbn/pull/7\n\u003e \n\u003e Best,\n\u003e \n\u003e Mustafa\n\n--\nJason Davies, http://www.jasondavies.com/",
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