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September 20, 2011  8:47 PM

BEAST Part – 2



Posted by: Dan O'Connor
tls beast, tls hack, tls v1 vulnerability, tls vulnerability

The basic premise of the attack that BEAST will preform is a chosen plain text attack.  A chosen plain text is a type of crypto attack that the attacker is in a position to feed text in to the cypher then analyze the output.  This allows the attacker to gain a good understanding of the crypto...

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September 20, 2011  2:45 PM

BEAST



Posted by: Dan O'Connor
tls beast, tls hack, tls v1 vulnerability, tls vulnerability

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/09/20/technology-tls-encryption-attack.html A working tool to exploit TLS v1 will be release this Friday (Sept 23rd).  Major browser vendors have been warned already.  I have done some spot checking and found a few secure sites I use are on v1...

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