On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 12:38:59AM +0200, Jostein Tveit wrote:

> The application data is encrypted. Everything after the 5th byte
> is ciphertext.
> 
> 17 (application data)
> 03 (major version)
> 00 (minor version)
> 00 20 (length 16bits)
> ... (32 bytes of encrypted data)
> 

With a 16 byte (128 bit) block cipher/MAC, the first 16 bytes are CBC
data, and the last 16 are the MAC. So the message length is somewhere
between 1 and 15 bytes (removing the CBC padding is not practical without
the encryption key).

-- 
        Viktor.
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