RE: ElcomSoft Co.Ltd. fould a flaw in V3Beta1

Rony,

My view, for what it is worth, do we have a choice? 

It has to be cryptographically robust - otherwise why exist?

If not Yarrow - what other?

David


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Sent: 24 March 2006 06:31
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Subject: [Passwordsafe-devel] ElcomSoft Co.Ltd. fould a flaw in V3Beta1

Hi,

The good folks at ElcomSoft have found a weakness in the new release that
makes the master encryption key vulnerable to a brute-force attack when
running pwsafe on pre-XP versions of Windows, basically since we fallback to
the rand() prng for those platforms. For more details, see
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/428552/30/0/threaded. (It's annoying
that they titled their note as a flaw in "3.0", which means I'll probably
have to bump the version number to 3.1 when we leave beta...)

Aside from hauling in an industrial strength PRNG (Yarrow?) and grovelling
around for bits of entropy, does anyone have a suggestion as to how to
replace rand or otherwise fix the flaw?

Thanks to Markus Jansson for pointing me to the ElcomSoft note.

	Cheers,

		Rony





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