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From the paper: "In order to decrypt one TLS session, the attacker must passively capture about 1,000 TLS sessions using RSA key exchange, make 40,000 SSLv2 con
by devit 11y ago
From the paper: "In order to decrypt one TLS session, the attacker must passively capture about 1,000 TLS sessions using RSA key exchange, make 40,000 SSLv2 connections to the victim server and perform 2^50 symmetric encryption operations"
In other words, while this compromises TLS when SSLv2 is enabled, it seems to be only maybe practical for targeted use by state actors, and even then easily detectable by network capture.
- tptacek 11y agoIf by "state actors" you mean "people who can afford $500 of AWS compute", then yes.