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Mark,

On 8/9/13 9:14 AM, Mark Thomas wrote:
> On 09/08/2013 14:50, Christopher Schultz wrote:
> 
>> It's too bad it took a researcher a year to figure out that 
>> compression of any kind makes encryption (where the attacker can
>> force random probing attacks) weak. It's not like SSL+compression
>> and SSL-compression+compression is that different.
> 
> It didn't. The original CRIME presentation covered this topic. I
> fail to understand why such a fuss is being made of this
> re-hashing.

I wouldn't say this constitutes a "fuss".

> The original CRIME presentation also (correctly) pointed out that
> any attack based on this is entirely theoretical and not currently
> at all practical.

Coffee shop + XSS? Perhaps a stretch.

The point is that folks are starting to chip-away at certain aspects
of TLS. Just like they did with hashing algorithms. MD5 was great when
it came out. So was SSL. There's nothing wrong with looking toward the
future, even if the current crop of problems aren't exactly catastrophic.

- -chris
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