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Re: OpenSSL
- From: Scott Francis
- Date: Mon Mar 17 20:20:41 2003
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 12:55:24PM -0500, smb@research.att.com said:
> In message <20030317173458.GC9680@darkuncle.net>, Scott Francis writes:
> >
>
> >
> >Fun is about all it comes to. See what Schneier had to say in the most
> >recent crypto-gram regarding this hole.
> ><http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram-0303.html>
>
> This is a new attack, not the one Schneier was talking about. It's
> very elegant work -- they actually implemented an attack that can
> recover the long-term private key. The only caveat is that their
> attack currently works on LANs, not WANs, because they need more
> precise timing than is generally feasible over the Internet.
Hm, mea culpa. I read the title without digging very far into the actual
announcements and thought it a rehash of the earlier holes. Thanks for
clearing it up for me.
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Scott Francis || darkuncle (at) darkuncle (dot) net
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