Timing RSA and Certificates worth ??
lyal collins
lyalc at mail.mpx.com.au
Tue Dec 12 16:45:02 PST 1995
My limited mind induces me to think that a certificate become subject to
timing attacks on the RSA private signing key.
This appears to meet the main critieria of fixed data (for instance, a
bank's certificate in/on ecash), processed widely by a small group of
machines (eg a subset of customers) on inherently untrusted machines (home
PC's) which may or may not have the right software/operating system parts.
Certificates in general, do not appear to lend themselves to "blinding".
In this case, certificate verification processes seem flawed and highly
unreliable.
eg a merchant gets lots of data containing a bank(s) certificate, and
probably encrypted data.
Is this the death knell for STT/SEPP and ecash/echeque systems ???
Some ramblings and thoughts.
lyal
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