Timing Attack Affecting ecdsa package, versions [,0.14)
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- published 13 Nov 2019
- disclosed 2 Oct 2019
- credit Centre for Research on Cryptography and Security
How to fix?
Upgrade ecdsa to version 0.14 or higher.
Overview
ecdsa is an easy-to-use implementation of ECDSA cryptography (Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm), implemented purely in Python, released under the MIT license.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Timing Attack. Practical recovery of the long-term private key generated by the library is possible under certain conditions. Leakage of bit-length of a scalar during scalar multiplication is possible on an elliptic curve which might allow practical recovery of the long-term private key.
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version 3.1