{"id":8915,"date":"2014-06-05T19:59:40","date_gmt":"2014-06-05T23:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=8915"},"modified":"2014-06-05T19:59:40","modified_gmt":"2014-06-05T23:59:40","slug":"ssltls-mitm-vulnerability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/05\/ssltls-mitm-vulnerability\/","title":{"rendered":"SSL\/TLS MITM Vulnerability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2014\/06\/heartbleed-redux-another-gaping-wound-in-ssl-uncovered\/\">Andy Greenberg<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2014\/06\/heartbleed-redux-another-gaping-wound-in-ssl-uncovered\/\"><p>On Thursday, the OpenSSL Foundation <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openssl.org\/news\/secadv_20140605.txt\">published an advisory<\/a> warning to users to update their SSL yet again, this time to fix a previously unknown but more than decade-old bug in the software that allows any network eavesdropper to strip away its encryption. The non-profit foundation, whose encryption is used by the majority of the Web&rsquo;s SSL servers, issued a patch and advised sites that use its software to upgrade immediately.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ccsinjection.lepidum.co.jp\/blog\/2014-06-05\/CCS-Injection-en\/index.html\">Masashi Kikuchi<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/ccsinjection.lepidum.co.jp\/blog\/2014-06-05\/CCS-Injection-en\/index.html\"><p>The biggest reason why the bug hasn&rsquo;t been found for over 16 years is that code reviews were insufficient, especially from experts who had experiences with TLS\/SSL implementation. If the reviewers had enough experiences, they should have been verified OpenSSL code in the same way they do their own code. They could have detected the problem.<\/p>\n<p>Fuzzing may have worked. However, as the history (see below) shows, knowledge of TLS\/SSL implementation seems vital.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Greenberg: On Thursday, the OpenSSL Foundation published an advisory warning to users to update their SSL yet again, this time to fix a previously unknown but more than decade-old bug in the software that allows any network eavesdropper to strip away its encryption. The non-profit foundation, whose encryption is used by the majority of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[131,179,48,581],"class_list":["post-8915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-bug","tag-openssl","tag-security","tag-ssltls"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}