Re:FortiGuard XOR Encryption in Multiple Fortinet Products
by gwd on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @05:43AM
(#21637118)
Given that the advisory advises you update rather than stop using them, hopefully a year and a half to actually implement some sort of actual encryption. And hopefully the reporters were paid for "discussing technical details", like, how to actually use an encryption library.
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Re:FortiGuard XOR Encryption in Multiple Fortinet Products
by retSava on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @06:52AM
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Well, posting over HTTPS (with the worst certificates removed) instead of HTTP, perhaps with certificate pinning, isn't that hard and goes a long way.
Re:FortiGuard XOR Encryption in Multiple Fortinet Products
by tialaramex on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @09:09AM
(#21638362)
This "XOR encryption" is vulnerable to an eavesdropper with almost no technical capability.
Even just HTTPS with no checks whatsoever (think 1990s Perl scripts or Python Requests with all the checking explicitly switched off) is protected against eavesdroppers, so that would require an active attacker (or a large quantum computer) to defeat, far more sophisticated than this trivial nonsense.