Triple Handshake Cookie Cutter
Researches have released a paper describing several vulnerabilities in TLS (Transport Layer Security). Some of the attacks have been known for a while, but the paper combines and explains them nicely, and also adds a couple of really clever new ideas. The tricks rely on cutting sessions off and re-starting them in a way that client and server end up with a different (security) state. The full research is available here https://secure-resumption.com/. The good news is that (a) the main impact is apparently limited to connections that use client-side certificates, which is rare, and (b) the researchers have informed the browser vendors early on, and some browsers and TLS libraries are already patched.
Keywords: Renegotiation TLS
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Mar 4th 2014
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Mar 7th 2014
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