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authorAndreas Schultz <[email protected]>2011-10-03 12:46:12 +0200
committerIngela Anderton Andin <[email protected]>2011-10-24 11:36:03 +0200
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fix handling of block_decipher/5 failure
A wrong decryption key would cause a badmatch in generic_block_cipher_from_bin/2. The try in block_decipher/5 was probably intendend to deal with that, but was misplace for this. Additionaly, generating a failure alert erly, without computing the record MAC, creates vector for a timing attack on CBC padding (for details check TLS 1.2 RFC 5246, Sect. 6.2.3.2.). This attach vector and the counter meassure applies to all SSL/TLS versions. As a counter messure, compute the MAC even when decryption or padding checks fail. A invalid padding will force a MAC failure by intentionaly invalidating the content.
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