Re:Secret Code Found in Juniper's Firewalls Shows Risk of Go...
by hcf on Saturday December 19, 2015 @04:03AM
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Many https sites use RC4, I wouldn't be so sure.
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Re:Secret Code Found in Juniper's Firewalls Shows Risk of Go...
by netheril96 on Saturday December 19, 2015 @04:29AM
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Then use a browser that rejects RC4 (like latest Chrome).
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Re:Secret Code Found in Juniper's Firewalls Shows Risk of Go...
by Robin_Message on Saturday December 19, 2015 @04:54AM
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The private key is used to negotiate a session key, which is then used as the symmetric key for RC4 or whatever stream or block cipher you are using. Those session keys are ephemeral and per-session, so leaking them is only a problem for those sessions.
(Also, since it's a stream cipher, it can't use the same key ever again, else you can xor those ciphertexts to get 2 xored plaintexts, which are much easier to crack.)