GHSA-8Q6V-474H-WHGG The Thinbus Javascript Secure Remote Password (SRP) Client Generates Fewer Bits of Entropy Than Intended

Impact A protocol compliance bug in thinbus-srp-npm versions prior to 2.0.1 causes the client to generate a fixed 252 bits of entropy instead of the intended bit length of the safe prime defaulted to 2048 bits. RFC 5054 states in section 2.5.4 Client Key Exchange The client key exchange message...

New Attack Against AES-256 a 'Huge Result'

A group of cryptographers has devised a new attack against AES, the de facto standard encryption algorithm, that enables them to recover an encryption key in far less time than had been possible before. The attack can recover an AES-256 key in a small enough amount of time to make the method...