Bar mitzvah attack
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bar-mitzvah-attack-309-9842512
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Bar mitzvah attack
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The bar mitzvah attack is an attack on the SSL/TLS protocols that exploits the use of the RC4 cipher with weak keys for that cipher. While this affects only the first hundred or so bytes of only the very small fraction of connections that happen to use weak keys, it allows significant compromise of user security, for example by allowing the interception of password information which could then be used for long-term exploitation. The attack uses a vulnerability in RC4 described as the invariance
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar_mitzvah_attack
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2021-08-12T13:22:49Z
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