[Ach] OpenSSH ETM implementation error

[Aaron Zauner]

> On 21 Jun 2016, at 22:18, Alexander Wuerstlein <arw at cs.fau.de> wrote:
> 
> On 2016-06-21T09:18, Aaron Zauner <azet at azet.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 21 Jun 2016, at 14:55, Aaron Zauner <azet at azet.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> Our recommendations go with EtM in OpenSSH, Kenny Paterson published this slide deck recently: http://www.turing-gateway.cam.ac.uk/documents/tgmw35/Kenny%20Paterson.pdf
>>> 
>>> They identify a CBC timing oracle (not much used anymore) but more importantly: they identify a error in the generic Encrypt-then-Mac implementation in OpenSSH which is used quite a lot. I'm not aware of upstream patches.
>> 
>> Follow-up: https://twitter.com/kennyog/status/745153366699827205
> 
> Is there any more specific description of the problem? Somehow I can't
> really make sense of the slides regarding EtM problems, there are
> references to papers, e.g. on slide 56, but I can't even find the paper.
> Let alone make sense of the slides.

I believe this paper is yet to be published.

The slides pretty much tell what the problem here is but apparently they could not actively exploit it.

Aaron
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