The case of the 9 bit AES key

46 points - today at 8:51 PM

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tptacek today at 10:38 PM
"MuPDF versions before 1.28.5 use an implementation of the drand48 family" yeah, ok, so they're basically not doing real encryption. The number of bits in the key space isn't the real story; the keys simply aren't cryptographically random.
ubutler today at 10:27 PM
Rule #1 of rolling your own RNG: don’t.

Rule #2? Please don’t.

JonChesterfield today at 10:13 PM
Wonderful.
paulpauper today at 9:01 PM
it's like the weak hardware wallet entropy bug
jeffbee today at 9:46 PM
You'd have to be completely off your rocker to use a PDF tool written in C anyway.