[Announce] GnuPG's ElGamal signing keys compromised
Noel D. Torres Taño
ndtt at ll.iac.es
Fri Nov 28 00:07:33 CET 2003
> (selecting a smaller x secret exponent and using a smaller k for
> encryption). While making this change the problem with signing keys
> was accidentally introduced: the same small k for encryption was also
> used for signing. This can be used for a cryptographic attack to
Can't this be addressed changing the code to use a different small k for
signing, thus allowing to continue using (new) ElGamal sign+encrypt
keys?
Noel Torres (Envite)
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