Category: Cryptography

Following the introduction of crypto-condor and differential fuzzing in earlier blogposts, we showcase a use case where Quarsklab's automated test suite for cryptographic implementations allowed us to improve the reference implementation of the recently standardized HQC scheme.

Following a brief introduction to differential fuzzing, this blog post reviews the leading tools that leverage it for testing cryptographic primitives. In the second half, we present a method for creating a differential fuzzer along with the results we obtained.

In this blog post we present crypto-condor, an open-source test suite for compliance testing of implementations of cryptographic primitives.

We studied the most secure static encrypted nonce variant of "MIFARE Classic compatible" cards -- meant to resist all known card-only attacks -- and developed new attacks defeating it, uncovering a hardware backdoor in the process. And that's only the beginning...

In cryptography audits, we often find vulnerabilities labeled as low or informational, usually for "non-compliance"... So, what should we do with them?

Passbolt, an Open Source Password Manager, is using the Pwned Passwords service from HaveIBeenPwned to alert users if their password is present in a previous data breach. Pwned Passwords API is based on a mathematical property known as k-Anonymity guaranteeing that it never gains enough information about a non-breached password hash to be able to breach it later. Sounds good, right?

In March 2024, SandboxAQ proposed a CTF around Post-Quantum Cryptography (and more specifically Kyber's key exchange) for the RWPQC workshop. Here is our write-up of the solutions to the challenges.

We announce the release of a new version of Blue Galaxy Energy, our white-box cryptanalysis tool implementing the BGE attack against AES. This version addresses the main limitations of the previous version.

We introduce a new white-box cryptanalysis tool based on the pioneering BGE paper but without known open source public implementation so far.

We are releasing a new cryptanalysis tool based on a known paper but without known open source public implementation so far.