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On the bright side, this bug seems to require an ECDSA operation, and I would guess that most ePassports are using RSA. Can't seem to find any statistics but the standards support both.


PACE does use (EC)DH. Not sure if that’s vulnerable as well, or if this is once again a footgun specific to (EC)DSA.


Since it's a non constant time implementation of a specific part of the EC operation (modular inversion) my guess would be they reused the code for that everywhere and it's probably also present in ecdh and all other algorithms requiring a modular inversion.




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