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[PATCH] slaying the BEAST (TLS 1.0 exploiting)

Srebrenko Šehić
October 01, 2011 01:54AM
Hi,

You've probably heard it already. SSL was hacked and broken. You can
read about it at
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/19/beast_exploits_paypal_ssl/.
Some more commentary at
http://blogs.cisco.com/security/beat-the-beast-with-tls/

As it turns out, OpenSSL people implemented a fix for this almost 10
years ago. Details at http://www.openssl.org/~bodo/tls-cbc.txt

Attached is a patch against 1.0.6 which introduces
"ssl_dont_insert_empty_fragments" flag to control whether this
workaround is enabled or not. Currently, it was hardcoded to disabled.
This patch makes it optional.

Note: this patch breaks certain old browsers which choke on the
workaround. This was tested with IE6.

Comments?

Cheers,
Srebrenko
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[PATCH] slaying the BEAST (TLS 1.0 exploiting)

Srebrenko Šehić 4028 October 01, 2011 01:54AM

Re: [PATCH] slaying the BEAST (TLS 1.0 exploiting)

Maxim Dounin 2881 October 01, 2011 05:52AM

Re: [PATCH] slaying the BEAST (TLS 1.0 exploiting)

Srebrenko Šehić 1067 October 02, 2011 09:32AM

Re: [PATCH] slaying the BEAST (TLS 1.0 exploiting)

Maxim Dounin 1206 October 02, 2011 10:40AM

Re: [PATCH] slaying the BEAST (TLS 1.0 exploiting)

Srebrenko Šehić 2124 October 02, 2011 01:30PM



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