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ROCA vulnerability: Technical details, Overview & Implications

The ROCA vulnerability is a cryptographic weakness that allows the private key of a key pair to be recovered from the public key in keys generated by devices with the vulnerability. "ROCA" is an acronym for "Return of Coppersmith's attack". The vulnerability has been given the identifier CVE-2017-15361.

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ROCA vulnerability topic overview

The analysis highlights Technical details, Overview and Implications as prominent areas in the source structure around ROCA vulnerability.

Related topics
26
Source areas
4
Connected nodes
30
Extracted relationships
23
Concept neighborhoods
14
Bridge connections
30

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Overview · 16 topics
Technical details · 7 topics
Implications · 2 topics
Mitigation · 1 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

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Affected hardware
TPMs, YubiKeys, Gemalto IDPrime .NET smart cards
Affected software
Any asymmetric encryption that used RSALib, including BitLocker and PGP
Date discovered
February 2017; 9 years ago (February 2017)
Discoverer
Matúš Nemec, Marek Sýs, et al. (Masaryk University)

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

Technical details

Mitigation

Implications

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How ROCA vulnerability connects Entity context

The extracted context around ROCA vulnerability shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, ROCA vulnerability → CVE-2017-15361, Detect Trusted Platform Modules, Detection, GitHub, GnuPG, Online, PGP, ROCA, ROCA Vulnerability Test Suite, S/MIME, Scripts, TrustMonitor ROCA Vulnerability Test, Vulnerable Another extracted example is ROCA vulnerability → TPMs, YubiKeys, Gemalto IDPrime .NET smart cards. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

ROCA vulnerability

Top relations

related to External links · 13
ROCA vulnerability → CVE-2017-15361, Detect Trusted Platform Modules, Detection, GitHub, GnuPG, Online, PGP, ROCA, ROCA Vulnerability Test Suite, S/MIME, Scripts, TrustMonitor ROCA Vulnerability Test, Vulnerable
Affected hardware · 1
ROCA vulnerability → TPMs, YubiKeys, Gemalto IDPrime .NET smart cards
Affected software · 1
ROCA vulnerability → Any asymmetric encryption that used RSALib, including BitLocker and PGP
CVE identifier · 1
ROCA vulnerability → CVE-.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-col…
Date discovered · 1
ROCA vulnerability → February 2017; 9 years ago (February 2017)
Discoverer · 1
ROCA vulnerability → Matúš Nemec, Marek Sýs, et al. (Masaryk University)
is a · 1
ROCA vulnerability → cryptographic weakness that allows the private key of a key pair to be recovered from the public key in keys generated by devices with the vulnerability

Important terminology

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Important terminology

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ROCA vulnerability relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 23 structured relationships around ROCA vulnerability. Examples in this analysis include ROCA vulnerability → Affected hardware → TPMs, YubiKeys, Gemalto IDPrime .NET smart cards and ROCA vulnerability → Affected software → Any asymmetric encryption that used RSALib, including BitLocker and PGP. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

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ROCA vulnerabilityAffected hardwareTPMs, YubiKeys, Gemalto IDPrime .NET smart cards1.00infobox
ROCA vulnerabilityAffected softwareAny asymmetric encryption that used RSALib, including BitLocker and PGP1.00infobox
ROCA vulnerabilityCVE identifierCVE-.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-col…1.00infobox
ROCA vulnerabilityDate discoveredFebruary 2017; 9 years ago (February 2017)1.00infobox
ROCA vulnerabilityDiscovererMatúš Nemec, Marek Sýs, et al. (Masaryk University)1.00infobox
ROCA vulnerabilityis acryptographic weakness that allows the private key of a key pair to be recovered from the public key in keys generated by devices with the vulnerability0.90text
3936-bitinstance ofthe ROCA authors suggest using key lengths that are less susceptible to ROCA0.80text
3072-bit orinstance ofthe ROCA authors suggest using key lengths that are less susceptible to ROCA0.80text
if there is a 2048-bit key size maximuminstance ofthe ROCA authors suggest using key lengths that are less susceptible to ROCA0.80text
1952-bits.Infineon has released firmware updates for its Trusted Platform Modules to manufacturers who have used its TPMsinstance ofthe ROCA authors suggest using key lengths that are less susceptible to ROCA0.80text
ROCA vulnerabilityrelated to External linksROCA0.60section
ROCA vulnerabilityrelated to External linksDetection0.60section

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around ROCA vulnerability bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Smart, Generated and Cards. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

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  • infineon technologies
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Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For ROCA vulnerability, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects ROCA vulnerability with Overview. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
ROCA vulnerability — Overview · splits 14 ⟂ 17
ROCA vulnerability — Technical details · splits 23 ⟂ 8
ROCA vulnerability — Implications · splits 28 ⟂ 3

Map overview Semantic statistics

ROCA vulnerability

Nodes31
Edges30
Triples23
Avg. degree1.94
Density0.064516
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around ROCA vulnerability to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Technical details, Overview & Implications, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — ROCA vulnerability · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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