Re: Core draft last call update.

[Bodo Moeller <moeller%cdc.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de@localhost>]

On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 09:38:49PM -0800, Wei Dai wrote:

[...]
> Given that the problem was found in time, and that the fix is simple (I've
> already provided the suggested language), why not just agree to fix it
> now?

What about the attack described in Appendix C of
<URL:http://eprint.iacr.org/2001/045/>, which appears to be
applicable to the SSH binary packet protocol as specified in
draft-ietf-secsh-transport-13.txt (no matter if CBC or OFB or
counter mode is used)?


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