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Re: [TLS] Rizzo claims implementation attach, should be interesting

=JeffH <Jeff.Hodges@KingsMountain.com> Tue, 20 September 2011 23:29 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] Rizzo claims implementation attach, should be interesting
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Martin Rex <mrex@sap.com> noted..
 >
 > I haven't yet seen a detailed description of the BEAST attack, but
 > what has been leaked so far (and that TLSv1.1 is allegedly not
 > susceptible to this particular attack) suggests that they're
 > exploiting a definite design flaw in the web browser that exhibits an
 > obvious and serious negligence in the management of TLS connection states
 > therefore providing a free "chosen adaptive plaintext attack" facility
 > as a courtesy to the attacker besides the courtesy to run arbitrary
 > attacker-supplied active content.

uh, yes, web browsers are full of such issues, some by accident, some (more or 
less) by design.This provides a high-level & very brief survey & bibliography 
of the landscape..

The Need for a Coherent Web Security Policy Framework
<http://kingsmountain.com/doc/HodgesSteingruebl-NeedCoherentWebSecurityPolicyFramework-2010.pdf>

See also..

Browser Security Handbook
https://code.google.com/p/browsersec/wiki/Main


=JeffH

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