Enable RSA blinding

Florian Weimer Weimer at CERT.Uni-Stuttgart.DE
Fri Mar 14 19:46:47 EST 2003


After browsing "Remote timing attacks are practical" (Boneh & Brumley,
<http://crypto.stanford.edu/~dabo/abstracts/ssl-timing.html>), I
wonder if it might be a good idea to add calls to RSA_blinding_on()
before the OpenSSL RSA decryption routines are invoked.

The issue is not a LAN-only issue, BTW.  Packet delay variation is
usually higher in LANs than in WANs.

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