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Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2016 21:52:51 +0200
From: Roman Drahtmueller <draht@...altsekun.de>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com,Marcus Meissner <meissner@...e.de>
Subject: Re: CVE-2016-2178: OpenSSL DSA follows a non-constant time codepath for certain operations
Hi Marcus,
> Hi,
>
> the openssl team usually announces those LOW issues together with the
> other
> issues during their semi regular advisories.
>
> (And usually as soon as these LOW CVE issues are getting added to git,
> a
> new advisory is not far away.)
>
The only low part here appears to be the number of samples needed for a full recovery.
Are we sure that a "low" rating is justified?
DSA is basically dead, until the constant time switch is flicked. The only countermeasure so far is turning it off.
Thx,
Roman.
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