It has been around for 20 years … and it’s still a problem

Prof Bill Buchanan OBE FRSE
Coinmonks
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4 min readAug 3, 2018

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The Bleichenbacher’s attack [here] has been known for 20 years, and has been the core of many attacks on SSL. It returned back in 2017 in the form of ROBOT (Return Of Bleichenbacher’s Oracle Threat https://robotattack.org/).

A demo of the principles covered here is here.

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Prof Bill Buchanan OBE FRSE
Coinmonks

Professor of Cryptography. Serial innovator. Believer in fairness, justice & freedom. Based in Edinburgh. Old World Breaker. New World Creator. Building trust.