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Old 02-15-2007, 06:30 PM   #43
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I'm not sure there is any point in finding a hash collision. Hash collisions are potentially useful if you want to forge a digital signature, but its a kind of one-off attack, and requires padding of the data to be signed.

In this particular case what you want to do is fake a signature on a modified firmware. Padding probably isn't much of an option. You really need to break the DSA key. Doable at 1024 bits, but not cheap. Much better to just remove the signature check.
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