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Re: Swiss Researchers Find A Hole In SSL
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Rescorla)
Sun Feb 23 13:07:11 2003
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To: Vin McLellan <vin@theworld.com>
Cc: cryptography@wasabisystems.com, Steve Schear <schear@attbi.com>
Reply-To: EKR <ekr@rtfm.com>
From: Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com>
Date: 21 Feb 2003 09:21:00 -0800
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20030220233051.0307a310@pop.TheWorld.com>
Vin McLellan <vin@theworld.com> writes:
> 4. Is this an issue for the client or the server? Normally, this would
> only be an issue for the "server" (i.e., the party that receives the
> connection request), since normal SSL clients don't automatically
> large numbers of connections.
It's worth noting that the paper describes a specific client
(Outlook) that in fact does gneerate large numbers of connections.
-Ekr
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