Re: OpenSSL

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. --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb (me) http://www.wilyhacker.com (2nd edition of "Firewalls" book)