Re: Security team successfully cracks SSL using 200 PS3's and MD5 flaw.

From: Florian Weimer (no email)
Date: Sat Jan 03 2009 - 15:01:37 EST

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    * Hank Nussbacher:

    > On Fri, 2 Jan 2009, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
    >
    >> MD5 is broken, don't use it for anything important.
    >
    > You mean like for BGP neighbors?

    Good point. However, as a defense against potential blind injection
    attacks, even an unhashed password in a TCP option would do the trick
    (at least in the non-IXP case, IXPs may pose different challenges).

    > Wanna suggest an alternative? :-)

    Just switch on IPsec. 8-)


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