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libtomcrypt -- weak signature scheme with ECC keys

Description:

The Secure Science Corporation reports that libtomcrypt is vulnerable to a weak signature scheme. This allows an attacker to create a valid random signature and use that to sign arbitrary messages without requiring the private key.

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portaudit: libtomcrypt -- weak signature scheme with ECC keys

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Oliver Eikemeier <eik@FreeBSD.org>