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Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 11:17:27 -0400
From: Nathaniel W Filardo <nwf@cs.jhu.edu>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] exportfs security question
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On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 02:08:25PM +0200, Mechiel Lukkien wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 07:48:54AM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote:
> > > We haven't brought up SSL yet, so Eve can read our exchanged random
> > > numbers... now these values get shoved into SHA-1 (along with the 56 =
bits of
> > > entropy from Kn derived from p9any authentication) before being used =
to make
> > > the SSL secrets... but... that doesn't seem to matter much.  Eve sees=
 the
> > > first four, the last four, and knows 1/8th of the middle 8 bytes (p9s=
k1 gets
> > > an 8-byte secret by unpacking a 7-byte DES key) of the input to the S=
HA-1
> > > function, meaning...  Eve still only needs to do at most 2^56 SHA-1
> > > operations to search for our SSL secrets [1]...  OK, so Eve can't have
> > > precomputed tables to help her out, fair enough, but this still seems
> > > dubious.
> > >=20
> > > Subsequently, having done all of this, the secrets fed into the SSL s=
tream
> > > contain only 80 bits of entropy, which is itself somewhat small (esp.
> > > relative to the ability of rc4 to use 128 or even 256 bit keys).
> >=20
> > eve has to do zero computation to get at your plan-text stream.
> > i think they call it transport security for a reason. :-)
>=20
> he probably means eve as in eavesdropper.  alice, bob, eve & friends.

Erm, yes, that... the name collision didn't even occur to me.  Sorry. :)
--nwf;

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