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Feast day June 3

F Flame MD5 Collision 2012
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Blessed Flame MD5 Collision

Hagiography in preparation at the scriptorium.

Technical record

Disclosed on
June 3 2012
CVE
No CVE: blessed, not yet canonized by MITRE

Flame forged a Windows Update-valid certificate through a new MD5 collision against Terminal Server Licensing certificates, the first state-level cryptanalytic attack seen in the wild. It has no CVE; it is tracked as Microsoft Security Advisory 2718704.

Sources: msrc.microsoft.com · msrc.microsoft.com · ir.cwi.nl

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