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Ron was wrong, Whit is right

Lenstra, Arjen  
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Hughes, James P.
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Augier, Maxime  
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2012

We performed a sanity check of public keys collected on the web. Our main goal was to test the validity of the assumption that different random choices are made each time keys are generated. We found that the vast majority of public keys work as intended. A more disconcerting finding is that two out of every one thousand RSA moduli that we collected offer no security. Our conclusion is that the validity of the assumption is questionable and that generating keys in the real world for multiple-secrets'' cryptosystems such as RSA is significantly riskier than for single-secret'' ones such as ElGamal or (EC)DSA which are based on Diffie-Hellman.

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report
Author(s)
Lenstra, Arjen  
Hughes, James P.
Augier, Maxime  
Bos, Joppe Willem
Kleinjung, Thorsten  
Wachter, Christophe
Date Issued

2012

Publisher

IACR

Total of pages

17

Subjects

sanity check

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RSA

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99.8% security

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ElGamal

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DSA

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ECDSA

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(batch) factoring

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discrete logarithm

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Euclidean algorithm

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seeding random number generators

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K_9

URL

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http://eprint.iacr.org/2012/064.pdf
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OTHER

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February 16, 2012
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/77787
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