SSL officially insecure?

R.J._Steinert's picture

A zero-day flaw in the TLS and SSL protocols has been made public and man-in-the-middle attacks have been demonstrated. I caught wind of this off of ZDnet.

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1000000189,39860592,00.htm

Thoughts?

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ouch

grendzy's picture
grendzy - Tue, 2009-11-10 06:01

This looks ugly. Here's a great writeup I found:
http://www.educatedguesswork.org/2009/11/understanding_the_tls_renegoti....

Also, it seems OpenSSL 0.9.81 disables renegotiation by default, which should be an effective workaround for most sites.