Blind RSA apps like Privacy Pass face real-world threat model from scaled oracle queries
matthew_d_green · x · 2026-09-22
A cryptographic discussion of Blind RSA applications such as Privacy Pass: the threat model matches the attack setting because an attacker would need to solve a prohibitively large number of CAPTCHAs, yet the scale of these apps means their request volumes are comparable to oracle queries against a single key.
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