Because crypto is too pleasant without x509.
More specifically, TLS 1.2 Session Tickets. Session Tickets, specified in RFC 5077, are a technique to resume TLS sessions by storing key material encrypted on the clients. In TLS 1.2 they speed up the handshake from two to one round-trips. Unfortunately, a combination of deployment realities and three…
Linux 4.13 introduces support for nothing less than... TLS! The 1600 LoC patch allows userspace to pass the kernel the encryption keys for an established connection, making encryption happen transparently inside the kernel. The only ciphersuite supported is AES-128-GCM as per RFC 5288, meaning it only supports TLS version…
Ticketbleed (CVE-2016-9244) is a software vulnerability in the TLS stack of certain F5 products that allows a remote attacker to extract up to 31 bytes of uninitialized memory at a time, which can contain any kind of random sensitive information, like in Heartbleed. If you suspect you might be affected…
Nick Sullivan and I gave a talk about TLS 1.3 at 33c3, the latest Chaos Communication Congress. Here's the Fahrplan entry. We spoke about the flow of TLS 1.2 vs. TLS 1.3, how it manages to save a round trip, resumption and 0-RTT, forward secrecy and replays,…
Starting a series of blog posts on TLS 1.3, I published my notes on the landscape of cipher nonces in TLS across versions, to help me clean up the implementation. Comes with hand-drawn diagrams! TLS nonce-nse | CloudFlare Blog (archive)…
I presented TLS 1.3 to the CloudFlare London office. Why it's faster, how it works, why it's safer, what's clever about it. The talk is recorded and comes with colored diagrams. There's a transcript on the CloudFlare blog. Update: you might want to watch my 33c3 talk on the…
Early this week, a new OpenSSL error code padding oracle dropped. Padding oracles are one of the most fun crypto vulnerabilities, so I gave this one the full treatment: a ten lines PoC and CLI test, obviously based on a patched Go crypto/tls https://github.com/FiloSottile/CVE-2016-2107 an…
tl;dr: Go crypto/tls servers can't understand a sad SSLv2-flavored compatibility trick IE6 and JDK 5/6 do, I updated a patch, don't use it. While doing large scale TLS measurement with a Go crypto/tls server for CloudFlare, I started seeing this error score pretty high in my…
This week Plex, a self-hosted media server, announced that they now offer TLS to secure all connections, including those to the user's servers. This is actually pretty interesting. Background A quick overview of the Plex architecture to understand why this is different from the average HTTPS deployment. The server is…
Logjam is a downgrade attack against the TLS protocol itself which exploits EXPORT ciphersuites. I wrote a long explanation of how the attack works and its background (what Diffie-Hellman is and how exactly it's used in the TLS handshake) on the CloudFlare blog. Logjam: the latest TLS vulnerability explained | CloudFlare…
This is a quick recap of why I'm sad about SMTP encryption. It explains how TLS certificate verification in SMTP is useless even if you force it. SMTP SMTP is the protocol that mail servers talk between them to deliver mail. Standardized in 1982 it used to be, unsurprisingly, 100%…
If you are on the ball already and just want the new vulnerability, scroll to the "client side SSL verification" section. tl;dr The Komodia/Superfish proxy can be made to allow self-signed certificates without warnings. Recap Some Lenovo laptops shipped with Superfish preinstalled - an ad injecting software. How…