{"id":33343,"date":"2023-05-28T23:04:35","date_gmt":"2023-05-28T15:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/?p=33343"},"modified":"2023-05-28T23:04:36","modified_gmt":"2023-05-28T15:04:36","slug":"padre-padding-oracle-attack-exploiter-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/2023\/05\/padre-padding-oracle-attack-exploiter-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"padre – Padding Oracle Attack Exploiter Tool"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

padre<\/em>\u00a0is an advanced exploiter and Padding Oracle attack tool that can be deployed against CBC mode encryption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In many cryptographic systems, especially those that use block cyphers (like AES), data must be divided into blocks of a specific size. If the data doesn’t fit neatly into this block size, it must be “padded” with extra bits to fill out the remaining space. This padding must be done in a specific way so it can be identified and removed when the data is decrypted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So in this attack type, we don’t know the key – but we do have access to a system that does know the key (the oracle) and we can leverage information from that system to decrypt the block.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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