Security Advisories (1)
CVE-2020-17478 (2020-08-10)

ECDSA/EC/Point.pm in Crypt::Perl before 0.33 does not properly consider timing attacks against the EC point multiplication algorithm.

NAME

Crypt::Perl::ECDSA::Parse - ECDSA key parsing

SYNOPSIS

use Crypt::Perl::ECDSA::Parse ();

#These accept either DER or PEM, native format or PKCS8.
#
my $prkey = Crypt::Perl::ECDSA::Parse::private($buffer);
my $pbkey = Crypt::Perl::ECDSA::Parse::public($buffer);

DISCUSSION

See Crypt::Perl::ECDSA::PrivateKey and Crypt::Perl::ECDSA::PublicKey for descriptions of the interfaces of these two classes.