RSA brushes off crypto research findings that RSA algorithm is flawed

RSA says researchers’ results don’t indicate a fundamental flaw in the RSA algorithm but more likely a problem with implementing it After having its flagship RSA crypto system called flawed this week by prominent researchers in a paper they made available online, EMC’s RSA security division struck back by saying the paper’s results don’t indicate […]

RSA security flawed say researchers after collecting duplicate public keys

Cryptography researchers collected millions of X.509 public key certificates that are publicly available over the web and found what they say is a shockingly high frequency of duplicate RSA-moduli keys. “We performed a sanity check of public keys collected on the web,” the researchers state in their paper, published today and titled “Ron was wrong, […]

Google Wallet security flawed, reveals blogger

The Smartphone Champ blog has publicised a major security flaw within Google Wallet that can give hackers access to your Google Prepaid Card through the simple act of resetting your PIN. The blog discovered the flaw when it noticed that the Google Wallet Prepaid Card is not connected to a user’s Google account, but rather, […]