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Re: devotee (debian vote engine): predictable RNG allows recovery of secret monikers



On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 05:13:23PM +0200, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote:
> +          hmac_sha256_hex($name, $alias + "obfuscate"), "\n";

Are you sure HMAC is immune against extension attacks on the "key"? You
may want to append it to the name instead.

Bastian

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