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Re: [TLS] Another IRINA bug in TLS

Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@redhat.com> Thu, 21 May 2015 07:46 UTC

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From: Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [TLS] Another IRINA bug in TLS
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On Wed, 2015-05-20 at 12:23 -0400, Watson Ladd wrote:

> They do mean DHE_EXPORT to refer to dhe_rsa_export and dhe_dss_export,
> as "defined" in RFC 2246. These are ciphersuite values.

I stand corrected. It is an interesting attack, but it is very
surprising to see ghosts like these ciphersuites present in real
servers.

regards,
Nikos

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