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Recent academic work focused on weak cryptographic protections in the implementation of the IEEE P1735 standard has been escalated to an alert published Friday by the Department of Homeland Security.
DHS' US-CERT warned the IEEE P1735 standard for encrypting electronic-design intellectual property and the management of access rights for such IP is flawed.
"In the most egregious cases, enable attack vectors that allow recovery of the entire underlying plaintext IP," US-CERT said in its alert, citing researchers that found the flaw. "Implementations of IEEE P1735 may be weak to cryptographic attacks that allow an attacker to obtain plaintext intellectual property without the key, among other impacts."
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) P1735 standard flaw was first reported by a team of University of Florida researchers. In September, the researchers released a paper titled Standardizing Bad Cryptographic Practice (PDF).
In all, seven CVE IDs are assigned to the flaw and document the weakness in the P1735 standard.
Source: https://threatpost.com/us-cert-warns-of-crypto-bugs-in-ieee-standard/128784/
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 13 2017, @04:22AM
OK, the error is in the source articles, but there is no such thing as the "(IEEE) P1735 standard". The "P" means proposal, i.e., that the document in question is not yet a standard under the IEEE process.
They do seem to be talking about an actual published IEEE standard, though, which can be correctly referred to as IEEE 1735-2014 (note the lack of a "P" and the addition of the publication year), possibly including its technical corrigendum (Cor 1-2015).