Re:FortiGuard XOR Encryption in Multiple Fortinet Products
by tialaramex on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @09:09AM
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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.
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.