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Millions of Samsung Android Phones Shipped with Encryption Flaw [Report]
March 1, 2022, 11:29 p.m. | brooke.crothers
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Millions of Samsung Android Phones Shipped with Encryption Flaw [Report]
brooke.crothers
Tue, 03/01/2022 - 15:29
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Samsung failed to implement Keymaster TA (Trusted Application) properly in its Galaxy series phones. These “severe” cryptographic design flaws could let attackers extract hardware-protected keys, according to a paper describing the problem.
The flaw was first reported by The Register.
ARM processor-based Android smartphones use a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) to implement security functions. The TEE, in turn, runs a separate, isolated, TrustZone …
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