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    7 days ago

    “If this result holds up under peer review, it would indeed be a conceptual break-through,” Karsten Nohl, a cryptography expert and the head of innovation at Allurity, said in an interview.

    Emphasis mine. It’s also only problematic for blind-signature types.

    The attack works only against blind-signature implementations of RSA. The overwhelming majority of RSA in use today provides PKCS or PSS padding, a format that adds data to the plaintext before it’s encrypted.

    So even if it passes peer review, it’s only an issue for older implementations.