The Return of Coppersmith's Attack: Practical Factorization of Widely Used RSA Moduli

Logo poskytovatele

Varování

Publikace nespadá pod Filozofickou fakultu, ale pod Fakultu informatiky. Oficiální stránka publikace je na webu muni.cz.
Autoři

NEMEC Matúš SÝS Marek ŠVENDA Petr KLINEC Dušan MATYÁŠ Václav

Rok publikování 2017
Druh Článek ve sborníku
Konference Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security
Fakulta / Pracoviště MU

Fakulta informatiky

Citace
www
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3133956.3133969
Obor Informatika
Klíčová slova RSA; factorization; smartcard; Coppersmith's algorithm
Popis We report on our discovery of an algorithmic flaw in the construction of primes for RSA key generation in a widely-used library of a major manufacturer of cryptographic hardware. The primes generated by the library suffer from a significant loss of entropy. We propose a practical factorization method for various key lengths including 1024 and 2048 bits. Our method requires no additional information except for the value of the public modulus and does not depend on a weak or a faulty random number generator. We devised an extension of Coppersmith's factorization attack utilizing an alternative form of the primes in question. The library in question is found in NIST FIPS 140-2 and CC EAL 5+ certified devices used for a wide range of real-world applications, including identity cards, passports, Trusted Platform Modules, PGP and tokens for authentication or software signing. As the relevant library code was introduced in 2012 at the latest (and probably earlier), the impacted devices are now widespread. Tens of thousands of such keys were directly identified, many with significant impacts, especially for electronic identity documents, software signing, Trusted Computing and PGP. We estimate the number of affected devices to be in the order of at least tens of millions. The worst cases for the factorization of 1024 and 2048-bit keys are less than 3 CPU-months and 100 CPU-years on single core of common recent CPUs, respectively, while the expected time is half of that of the worst case. The attack can be parallelized on multiple CPUs. Worse still, all susceptible keys contain a strong fingerprint that is verifiable in microseconds on an ordinary laptop -- meaning that all vulnerable keys can be quickly identified, even in very large datasets.
Související projekty:

Používáte starou verzi internetového prohlížeče. Doporučujeme aktualizovat Váš prohlížeč na nejnovější verzi.