ROBOT

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A 2017 return of a classic RSA padding oracle affecting many TLS stacks.

Return Of Bleichenbacher's Oracle Threat showed that a 1998 RSA PKCS#1 v1.5 padding attack still worked against numerous modern implementations. It underscored how hard it is to fully retire a flawed cryptographic construction.

Also known as: ROBOT, Return Of Bleichenbacher's Oracle Threat

Sources

  • ROBOT attack (2017)

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