Re:SSL, Gone in 30 seconds
by cryptic on Friday August 02, 2013 @11:04AM
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Adding a few random bytes to a response seems to be an easy fix and doesn't require compression being disabled.
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Adding a random amount of random bytes will not defeat the attack, it would only slightly increase the amount of time required by making the side channel noisier.
Adding a fixed amount of random bytes will have no benefit at all.
Not following your assertion. Suppose the reported size was always a random epsilon larger than the actual size. Choose epsilon so that its small enough to benefit from compression and large enough to obscure the BREACH. Why doesn't that work?