Terrapin attack
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terrapin-attack-297-13201507
title:
Terrapin attack
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The Terrapin attack is a cryptographic attack on the commonly used SSH protocol that is used for secure command-and-control throughout the Internet. The Terrapin attack can reduce the security of SSH by using a downgrade attack via man-in-the-middle interception. The attack works by prefix truncation; the injection and deletion of messages during feature negotiation, manipulating sequence numbers in a way that causes other messages to be ignored without an error being detected by either client o
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Cryptographic attack on the ssh protocol
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrapin_attack
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2024-04-14T10:37:53Z
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