CBC – HACKMAGEDDON

XML Encryption Cracked!

October 23, 2011 3 Comments ACM Conference, AES, Axis2, BEAST, CBC, Cipher-Block Chaining, Encryption, IBM, Jboss, Juraj Somorovsky, Microsoft, Red Hat Linux, Ruhr University Bochum, Tibor Jager, W3C, Web service, XML, XML Encryption, XML Signature

We have not completely assimilated the BEAST vulnerability, and here it comes, from Bochum, Germany, another serious flaw involving Encryption,

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The Beauty (RC4) and The BEAST (TLS)

September 25, 2011 5 Comments BEAST, CBC, Chrome, Google, Initialization vector, Juliano Rizzo, RC4, Security, SSL, Thai Duong, TLS, Transport Layer Security, WebSockets

Hard times for Information Security and for the authentication models it had been built upon. The inglorious falls of SecureID

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