Once upon a time most people thought that RSA encryption was unbreakable, until a cryptographer demonstrated a plaintext-recovery attack. The attack, a.k.a the million message attack, became instant classic and is the root of all error oracle attacks including padding oracle. It was 20 years ago.
Tales of The Cryptographer
Tales of The Cryptographer
Tales of The Cryptographer
Once upon a time most people thought that RSA encryption was unbreakable, until a cryptographer demonstrated a plaintext-recovery attack. The attack, a.k.a the million message attack, became instant classic and is the root of all error oracle attacks including padding oracle. It was 20 years ago.