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On the (In)Security of ElGamal in OpenPGP
- Source :
- CCS
- Publication Year :
- 2023
- Publisher :
- Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2023.
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Abstract
- Roughly four decades ago, Taher ElGamal put forward what is today one of the most widely known and best understood public key encryption schemes. ElGamal encryption has been used in many different contexts, chiefly among them by the OpenPGP email encryption standard. Despite its simplicity, or perhaps because of it, in reality there is a large degree of ambiguity on several key aspects of the cipher. Each library in the OpenPGP ecosystem seems to have implemented a slightly different "flavor" of ElGamal encryption. While-taken in isolation-each implementation may be secure, we reveal that in the interoperable world of OpenPGP, unforeseen cross-configuration attacks become possible. Concretely, we propose different such attacks and show their practical efficacy by recovering plaintexts and even secret keys.
Details
- ISSN :
- 15577317 and 00010782
- Volume :
- 66
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Communications of the ACM
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....b8d90bed8b38f01f911d6e905f765f31