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Re: Security advisory for YubiKey 4: RSA generation broken

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On 10/16/2017 09:13 PM, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> On Mon, 2017-10-16 at 21:06 +0200, Christian Seiler wrote:
>> Unfortunately, as far as I understand it, there's no easy method for
>> detecting these kinds of broken keys without actually attempting to
>> factorize them - and while that's feasible (hence the vulnerability)
>> it is still quite expensive - so there is currently no easy method of
>> scanning through the Debian keyring for affected keys.
> 
> Actually that's wrong, the generation process leaves “fingerprints” which can
> be used to identify keys. See for example:
> 
> https://keychest.net/roca
> https://github.com/crocs-muni/roca
> 
> These tools have been used to identify three vulnerable (sub)keys in the
> Debian keyring (this is already been taken care of).

Oh, fantastic, thanks!

Regards,
Christian

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Security advisory for YubiKey 4: RSA generation broken Christian Seiler <christian@iwakd.de> - 2017-10-16 21:10 +0200
  Re: Security advisory for YubiKey 4: RSA generation broken Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac@debian.org> - 2017-10-16 21:20 +0200
    Re: Security advisory for YubiKey 4: RSA generation broken Christian Seiler <christian@iwakd.de> - 2017-10-16 21:40 +0200
    Re: Security advisory for YubiKey 4: RSA generation broken Jonathan McDowell <noodles@earth.li> - 2017-10-16 21:50 +0200
  Re: Security advisory for YubiKey 4: RSA generation broken Antoine Beaupré <anarcat@orangeseeds.org> - 2017-10-16 21:30 +0200
    Re: Security advisory for YubiKey 4: RSA generation broken Marc Haber <mh+debian-project@zugschlus.de> - 2017-10-17 09:20 +0200
  Re: Security advisory for YubiKey 4: RSA generation broken NIIBE Yutaka <gniibe@fsij.org> - 2017-10-18 03:40 +0200

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