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Re: [TLS] DTLS implementation attack?

"Paterson, Kenny" <Kenny.Paterson@rhul.ac.uk> Thu, 05 January 2012 16:43 UTC

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On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 5:56 PM, Marsh Ray <marsh at extendedsubset.com<http://extendedsubset.com>> wrote:

> Anyone have more info on this?
> Even just a CVE or 'fixed in' version would be helpful.
> http://www.isoc.org/isoc/conferences/ndss/12/program.shtml#1a
> Plaintext-Recovery Attacks Against Datagram TLS

The OpenSSL version of this attack, to be presented at NDSS 2011, has now been given CVE-2011-4108.

A paper describing the attack can be found at: www.isg.rhul.ac.uk/~kp/dtls.pdf<http://www.isg.rhul.ac.uk/~kp/dtls.pdf>

Cheers,

Kenny Paterson

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