The 2021 Pwnie Winner For Best Cryptographic Attack

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NSA discovered a bug in the verification of signatures in Windows which breaks the certificate trust chain.  This is the first time a crypto bug had real world impact, and NSA disclosed it through the vulnerability equities process (VEP).