Stanford University's seminar explores the pitfalls of random number generation, covering RSA, Diffie-Hellman, and Linux generators in a 1-2 hour material.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction.
Textbook RSA.
Textbook Diffie-Hellman.
Taiwan Citizen Digital Certificate Smartcards.
Should we expect to find key collisions in the wild?.
What happens if we look for repeated keys?.
Classifying repeated keys.
Attributing SSL and SSH vulnerabilities to implementations.
Random number generation in software.
Linux random number generators.
Devices generating weak DSA signatures.
Taught by
Stanford Online
