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PS3 Public Keys fail0verflow (youtube.com)
6 points by daeken on Dec 30, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


Note: this is not the same attack as http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2050229

In this case, they found a vulnerability in the signature scheme which allowed them to recover a compatible private key. Their signatures are as valid as Sony's own.

Nate Lawson also has a great post on how this can happen, although it's not specific to this case: http://rdist.root.org/2010/11/19/dsa-requirements-for-random...




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