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ROCA vulnerability

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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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)

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ROCA vulnerability

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ROCA vulnerability

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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
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Date discovered · 1
ROCA vulnerability → February 2017; 9 years ago (February 2017)
Discoverer · 1
ROCA vulnerability → Matúš Nemec, Marek Sýs, et al. (Masaryk University)
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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

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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
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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

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