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CursedSilicontoday at 12:34 AM1 replyview on HN

There was notoriously a bug with the Wii's RSA implementation

https://wiibrew.org/wiki/Signing_bug


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hn92726819today at 4:05 AM

Unrelated, but in that link:

> Interestingly, the code continues to check the entire hash after a mismatch.

This is a standard practice in cryptography, but maybe not at the time.