Re:The Matasano Crypto Challenges (2013)
by koolba on Thursday August 17, 2017 @03:01PM
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My favorite quote from this is:
> How practical these attacks were. A lot of stuff that I knew was weak in principle (like re-using a nonce or using a timestamp as a 'random' seed) turns out to be crackable within seconds by an art major writing crappy Python.
It shows the realization that "somewhat broken" in crypto usually means horribly broken.
> How practical these attacks were. A lot of stuff that I knew was weak in principle (like re-using a nonce or using a timestamp as a 'random' seed) turns out to be crackable within seconds by an art major writing crappy Python.
It shows the realization that "somewhat broken" in crypto usually means horribly broken.