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Good find. This page should almost certainly be the headline article on HN, at least until someone does a full write-up of the vulnerability --- but the vulnerability here looks very simple (and gross): if you can define your own curve parameters and get CryptoAPI to honor them, you can sign anything.



The only way to do it (I'm lazy so didn't read any of the documents - my gut feeling of an engineer) ... is to use ECDH, which provides EC params in ServerKeyExchange. CryptoAPI might have used those and just pull the public key from the cert.




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