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It’s been more than a month in anticipation since I’ve booked my tickets. The final countdown began at 22.30 last night after a hasty Nandos dinner. Waving my friends a (temporary) goodbye, I stepped out, alone, of […]
It has taken a few days, but the IPsec vulnerability story has found ts way to the mainstream news sites, including:
The Register UK.gov warns over VPN crypto flaw
ZDNet UK Government warns of IPsec VPN flaw
Slashdot Flaw Found in VPN Crypto Security
Some observers quite correctly note that it has been known for a long […]
UK’s National Infrastructure Security Co-ordination Centre (NISCC, pronounced “nicey”) has just published a vulerability advisory concerning IPsec, a set of protocols commonly used in the deployment of Virtual Private Networks (VPNs). IPsec, when used under certain configurations, are vulnerable to a number of attacks where an attacker can recover the plaintext corresponding to encrypted […]
