Re: Asymmetric ciphers: counter measures

2016-04-05 Thread Herbert Xu
On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 12:27:03PM +0100, Stephan Mueller wrote: > > Currently RSA does not implement anything and is even susceptible to timing > attacks if I see that right as the leading zeros are stripped. In addition to We should certainly fix this by not stripping the zeroes. > the leadi

Asymmetric ciphers: counter measures

2016-02-24 Thread Stephan Mueller
Hi Herbert, currently RSA is implemented as the only asymmetric cipher in software. But others must be expected coming. We have seen the DH patch already. Albeit software asym ciphers is only a fallback, what is your opinion to cover those implementations with counter measures? Currently RSA d