Attacking the Diebold Signature Variant -- RSA Signatures with Unverified High-order Padding

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Main Authors: Gardner, Ryan W., Kohno, Tadayoshi, Yasinsac, Alec
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Published: 2024
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author Gardner, Ryan W.
Kohno, Tadayoshi
Yasinsac, Alec
author_facet Gardner, Ryan W.
Kohno, Tadayoshi
Yasinsac, Alec
contents We examine a natural but improper implementation of RSA signature verification deployed on the widely used Diebold Touch Screen and Optical Scan voting machines. In the implemented scheme, the verifier fails to examine a large number of the high-order bits of signature padding and the public exponent is three. We present an very mathematically simple attack that enables an adversary to forge signatures on arbitrary messages in a negligible amount of time.
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spellingShingle Attacking the Diebold Signature Variant -- RSA Signatures with Unverified High-order Padding
Gardner, Ryan W.
Kohno, Tadayoshi
Yasinsac, Alec
Cryptography and Security
We examine a natural but improper implementation of RSA signature verification deployed on the widely used Diebold Touch Screen and Optical Scan voting machines. In the implemented scheme, the verifier fails to examine a large number of the high-order bits of signature padding and the public exponent is three. We present an very mathematically simple attack that enables an adversary to forge signatures on arbitrary messages in a negligible amount of time.
title Attacking the Diebold Signature Variant -- RSA Signatures with Unverified High-order Padding
topic Cryptography and Security
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.01048