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Regarding Sicarii's broken decryption process, researchers said that "during execution, the malware regenerates a new RSA key pair locally, uses the newly generated key material for encryption, and then discards the private key."

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[โ€“] Natanael@infosec.pub 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Well, unless they also made key generation shitty, because that's equally plausible and would likely allow RSA keys to be broken (it's surprisingly hard to generate RSA keys safely)

[โ€“] Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 days ago

I know just enough to know that I absolutely shouldn't try to roll my own encryption, and that's enough knowledge for me