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I faked tons of Covid passes – “Weak Key Cryptography in real world”

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Re: I faked tons of Covid passes – “Weak Key Cryptography in real world”

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Anyone knows if this is applicable to Covid passes used in the European Union as well?

The private keys for the European Green Pass have been leaked and fake passes signed with the keys are being sold on the dark web. https://threatpost.com/eus-green-pass-vaccination-id-private...

They haven't been revoked yet?

Re: I faked tons of Covid passes – “Weak Key Cryptography in real world”

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> Although the code was provided, we took around 2 days to get this running since the code was written back in 2015. Some libraries are not currently supported forced us to make several changes on the code. The project was then running smoothly. Why not use a VM with older libraries and tools ?

Looks like the source code is meant for Amazon's EC2, so it was depending on the python/libraries on the EC2 back then, 5-6 years ago.

Doh, of course. Thanks :).

Re: I faked tons of Covid passes – “Weak Key Cryptography in real world”

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post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The private keys for the European Green Pass have been leaked and fake passes signed with the keys are being sold on the dark web. https://threatpost.com/eus-green-pass-vaccination-id-private...

They haven't been revoked yet?

Some have, but not all... yet.

Re: I faked tons of Covid passes – “Weak Key Cryptography in real world”

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post #6

I remember here in Canada there were concerns about this sort of thing when rolling out our proof-of-vaccination system, but practically speaking, the number of people with both the technical understanding and inclination to do this is surely too small to have a meaningful impact on COVID spread.

It seems that actually nothing has had a meaningful impact on coronavirus spread.

> seems…nothing has had a meaningful impact on coronavirus spread

Not sure if trolling, but in case not, vaccination has had “a substantial impact on mitigating COVID-19 outbreaks” in America [1].

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7709178/

Re: I faked tons of Covid passes – “Weak Key Cryptography in real world”

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post #6

I remember here in Canada there were concerns about this sort of thing when rolling out our proof-of-vaccination system, but practically speaking, the number of people with both the technical understanding and inclination to do this is surely too small to have a meaningful impact on COVID spread.

The current standard all provinces have switched to uses "Elliptic Curve keys using the P-256 curve", does it not? https://spec.smarthealth.cards/

I think the concern were most regarding key theft than a cryptographic attack.

Re: I faked tons of Covid passes – “Weak Key Cryptography in real world”

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Random question, but related: Like this example, I see lots of other applications that require a QR code storing binary data and chose to encoded this data as Base64 (or others) and then add it to a ASCII-only QR code format. Why don't they use a binary-mode QR code? Compatibility?

Re: I faked tons of Covid passes – “Weak Key Cryptography in real world”

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Anyone knows if this is applicable to Covid passes used in the European Union as well?

The private keys for the European Green Pass have been leaked and fake passes signed with the keys are being sold on the dark web. https://threatpost.com/eus-green-pass-vaccination-id-private...

>UPDATE: French & Polish authorities found no sign of cryptographic compromise in the leak of the private key used to sign the vaccine passports and to create fake passes for Mickey Mouse and Adolf Hitler, et al.

Afaik it was a leaked login, not a leak of the keys.

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