Security Now - 16k MP3

SN884: TLS Private Key Leakage


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This week we look back at last week's Patch Tuesday to learn how much better Microsoft various products are as a result. We look at Facebook's announced intention to creep further toward end-to-end encryption in Messenger, and at the puzzling result of a recent scan of the Internet for completely exposed VNC servers. I want to take a few minutes to talk about the importance of planning ahead for a domain name's future, share my tip for a terrific website cloning tool, and a few more updates. Then, after sharing some feedback from our ever-attentive listeners, we're going to address the question: Can a remote server's TLS private key be derived simply by monitoring a sufficient number of its connections? What?! We all know that everything has been designed so that's not possible. But edge cases turn out to be a surprising problem and the details of this research are quite interesting.
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