Quantum direct communication: secrecy without key distribution
dan at geer.org
dan at geer.org
Fri Dec 5 19:06:01 EST 2008
>
> The most obvious flaw is that when we're talking fiber optics the
> eavesdropper might as well be a man in the middle, and so... well, see
> the list archive.
>
...possibly OT...
well-placed but UNCORROBORATED informant sez that
day before yesterday (3 dec):
5 hours of CheckFree traffic redirected and likely
captured in full
half of IP addresses for CheckFree left in place, half
re-directed to Ukraine, i.e., partial MITM entirely
at the routing protocol layer
as is so often the case, slight amateurish fuckup at
the Ukrainian end raised the alarm -- would not otherwise
have been found for days
[the important part] it appears that in the last few hours
a method has been ?found/?released that makes possible the
MITM completely transparent with all traffic forwarded on
as if there was just an extra hop in the path; MITM via an
effective attack on routing protocols, per se, would be no joke
--dan
related...
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/12/hackers_hijacked_large_e-b
ill.html
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Online-Bill-Payment-Website-Hijacked-99262.shtml
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