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Re: OpenSSL
- From: alex
- Date: Tue Mar 18 10:39:02 2003
> > While the timing attack is the attack against the SSL server, it is my
> > reading of the paper that the attacks' success largely depends on ability to
> > tightly control the time it takes to communicate with a service using SSL.
> > Currently, such control is rather difficult to achive on links other than
> > ethernet.
> >
> Doesn´t MPLS provide consistent delay and minimal jitter and thus SSL
> servers connected to MPLS networks are more suspectible to attack?
Have you seen MPLS cards for servers being widely deployed? :)
The smaller the number of router(s) sitting between attacker and the target,
the closer attacker can control the timing.
Alex
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