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2001 Oct 16
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[Fwd: Re: Defeating Timing Attacks Patch for OpenSSH 2.9.9p2 and 2.9p2]
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Subject: Re: Defeating Timing Attacks Patch for OpenSSH 2.9.9p2 and
2.9p2
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 17:36:18 -0400
From: Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams at ubsw.com>
To: "C. Jason Coit" <jasonc at silicondefense.com>
CC: openssh-unix-dev at mindrot.org
References: <3BCC889C.AA5C57F0 at silicondefense.com>
Let's see. The timing attack has to do with predictable timing. The
solution would seem to be to add randomness to the packet timing. Your
patch does not do this -- it adds more predictable traffic.
I would think that to defeat the timing attack SSH would ha...