[56825] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: OpenSSL
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Ryan)
Tue Mar 18 10:59:28 2003
From: "Matt Ryan" <Matt.Ryan@telewest.co.uk>
To: "'Petri Helenius'" <pete@he.iki.fi>, alex@yuriev.com,
nanog@merit.edu
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 15:58:30 -0000
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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-----
=46rom: Petri Helenius [mailto:pete@he.iki.fi]
Sent: 18 March 2003 15:10
To: alex@yuriev.com; nanog@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=B4t 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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