Re: TLS renegotiation MITM

[Steve Dispensa]

Yes, I'd be glad to. It will take me a couple of days to get to a  
printer/scanner, but meanwhile, if an email can do this, take this as  
my official intent to assign copyright to fsf.

 -Steve

On Nov 5, 2009, at 3:03 PM, "Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos"  
<address@hidden> wrote:

> Steve Dispensa wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > A colleague and I have released details of a new attack against TLS  
> > in the
> > area of renegotiation. Information is here:
> >
> > http://extendedsubset.com/?p=8
> >
> > During the process of running this bug (and its proposed solution) to
> > ground, I implemented a patch to GNUTLS, attached. There are also  
> > two new
> > files that implement the extension that solves the problem.
> >
> > There is lots of background in the above link, but the one missing  
> > part is
> > the Internet Draft that has been tentatively agreed on by most of  
> > the major
> > vendors (pending IETF action, of course). That draft is what I have
> > implemented, and you should see it posted to the TLS IETF list  
> > tomorrow
> > morning.
>
> Hi thank you for the patch and for identifying the issue as well. I  
> like
> both your patch and the fix itself. Would you be interested in signing
> the copyright assignment papers for FSF?
>
> best regards,
> Nikos