Re: Asymmetric ciphers: counter measures

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On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 12:27:03PM +0100, Stephan Mueller wrote:
> 
> Currently RSA does not implement anything and is even susceptible to timing 
> attacks if I see that right as the leading zeros are stripped. In addition to 

We should certainly fix this by not stripping the zeroes.

> the leading zeroes problem, blinding comes to mind. If we do blinding, what 
> type of blinding is sufficient for a fallback (base, exponent, modulus)?

It's not just a fallback.  If we ever export this to user-space this
may become a primary implementation.

Cheers,
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