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Old 25th October 2011
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Default New denial of service tool knocks out encrypting servers

From http://h-online.com/-1366564

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A group calling itself The Hacker's Choice (THC) has released a tool that enables a single computer to disable an encrypting server. The concept used by the tool is based on forcing the server to renegotiate the key used for encryption.

Encrypting and decrypting payload data for services such as https is not particularly resource-hungry. Where an https connection gets really resource-intensive is in establishing the SSL connection, which involves key negotiation. This is, in part, because data encryption is carried out using highly efficient symmetric algorithms such as AES. To negotiate the AES session key, however, SSL needs to use resource-intensive asymmetric algorithms such as RSA. This is due both to the specific mathematical process involved and the key length required – AES, for example, requires 128 or 256 bits, whereas RSA requires 1024 or even 2048 bit keys.
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Old 26th October 2011
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Tool needs slight modification to work on Apache/Nginx - they don't allow renegotiation. I've tested it on Courier IMAP - and it overloads machine in less than a minute. Here you may find patched tool so that you don't kill your server but see if it's vulnerable or not: http://pastebin.com/bKLue33X
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