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Re: [Dailydave] tubes clogged
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  • Subject: Re: [Dailydave] tubes clogged
  • From: Thorsten Holz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
  • Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 10:24:40 +0100
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On 30.12.2008, at 02:18, Fyodor wrote:

>> "...their research required massive computational resources that  
>> had to be
>> utilized within a specific window of time": indicates some form of
>> brute-force cryptokey cracking.
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>
> the "specific window of time" bit makes me think of some sort of
> session keys, heh :)
>
> Also, somehow the "abusing the Internet" thing  became synonymical to
> "abusing internet routing protocols" (otherwise why everyone is
> bringing up the BGP issue). Can't there be other things to be abused?
> like authentication certs, PKI infrastructures, authentication
> mechanisms to control domain naming, RIPE or other registrar databases
> ... ?

The rumors I heard during 25C3 are that they broke a Root CA key that  
is included in major browsers. This would enable creating fake  
websites with a valid SSL-key, clearly a major threat...

Unfortunately I already had to leave Berlin, but the live stream will  
be available in a couple of hours at mms://streaming-25c3.fem-net.de/saal1(15:15 
  CET)

Cheers,
   Thorsten
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