Re: OpenSSL

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb () research att com>]

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)