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Re: TLS break

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Rescorla)
Mon Nov 16 12:20:29 2009

Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:18:52 +0200
From: Eric Rescorla <ekr@networkresonance.com>
To: dan@geer.org
Cc: Tom Weinstein <tweinst@pacbell.net>,
	cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <20091111011150.9CED833CAB@absinthe.tinho.net>

At Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:11:50 -0500,
dan@geer.org wrote:
> 
> 
>  | 
>  | This is the first attack against TLS that I consider to be
>  | the real deal. To really fix it is going to require a change to
>  | all affected clients and servers. Fortunately, Eric Rescorla
>  | has a protocol extension that appears to do the job.
>  | 
> 
> ...silicon...

Is the relevant silicon really this unprogrammable?

-Ekr

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