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authorSimon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>2006-09-08 13:43:50 +0000
committerSimon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>2006-09-08 13:43:50 +0000
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* Version 1.5.1 (unreleased)
+** Fix PKCS#1 verification to avoid a variant of Bleichenbacher's
+** Crypto 06 rump session attack.
+In particular, we check that the digestAlgorithm.parameters field is
+empty, to avoid that it can contain "garbage" that may be used to
+alter the numeric properties of the signature.
+
** Fix PKCS#1 decryption to avoid Bleichenbacher's Crypto 98 attack.
See <http://www.bell-labs.com/user/bleichen/papers/pkcs.ps.gz>.