alleged attack on TLS

[Chris Palmer]

On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 1:19 AM, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
<n.mavrogiannopoulos at gmail.com> wrote:

> From information gathered here
> and there it seems the attack is a variation or an implementation of
> the Bard attack [0].

The BEAST developers say that they were inspired by Dai, not Bard. FWIW.

> If you are using GnuTLS and want to prevent such
> attacks you can do the following:
> * Make sure that TLS 1.1 or TLS 1.2 are not disabled (gnutls enables
> them by default, but because of compatibility issues with broken peers
> they are often disabled)

You can also use a non-CBC cipher suite, like RC4.


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