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> I don't know why you're operating from the presumption that most security people know anything at all about basic cryptography I don't know why you're operat
by jamesrom 10y ago
> I don't know why you're operating from the presumption that most security people know anything at all about basic cryptography
I don't know why you're operating from the presumption I'm talking about security people in general. I'm talking about the people at Kaspersky who were tasked with writing a SSL certificate store. I will also quote the bug report: "You don't have to be a cryptographer to understand a 32bit key is not enough to prevent brute-forcing a collision in seconds. In fact, producing a collision with any other certificate is trivial."
> Have you taken a second to even think about how this precise bug even makes sense as an implant? Hint: it does not make sense as an implant.
Hint: Pair this with a DNS spoof and you can pretend to be whatever website you want.
- tptacek 10y agoFirst: generalist software developers muck with TLS all the time. There's a whole huge class of enterprise automation and management software that also does custom TLS. How good do you think that stuff is? Do you think the companies that churn this stuff out hire TLS experts to build those components? Of course they don't. Second: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13313794 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13313794