OpenSSL

Wed Mar 19 17:54:31 UTC 2003

lol - I promise in future to read to the bottom of messages. In fact if I
didn't top post I would have noticed, but that's a different can of worms
8-)

Matt.

-----Original Message-----
From: Petri Helenius [mailto:pete at he.iki.fi]
Sent: 18 March 2003 17:52
To: Matt Ryan; alex at yuriev.com; nanog at merit.edu
Subject: Re: OpenSSL

Note the smiley 10 lines down. You have been had.

Pete

----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt Ryan" <Matt.Ryan at telewest.co.uk>
To: "'Petri Helenius'" <pete at he.iki.fi>; <alex at yuriev.com>;
<nanog at merit.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 5:58 PM
Subject: RE: OpenSSL

MPLS (on its own) gives you jack-squat in terms of delay and jitter. All the
clever queuing can do it for you - but then it can for IP (because its the
same thing!).

Matt.

-----Original Message-----
From: Petri Helenius [mailto:pete at he.iki.fi]
Sent: 18 March 2003 15:10
To: alex at yuriev.com; nanog at merit.edu
Subject: Re: OpenSSL

>
> 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

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