OpenSSL

Tue Mar 18 15:09:58 UTC 2003

>
> While the timing attack is the attack against the SSL server, it is my
> reading of the paper that the attacks' success largely depends on ability to
> tightly control the time it takes to communicate with a service using SSL.
> Currently, such control is rather difficult to achive on links other than
> ethernet.
>
Doesn´t MPLS provide consistent delay and minimal jitter and thus SSL
servers connected to MPLS networks are more suspectible to attack?


:-)

Pete