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Date:      Wed, 17 Mar 2004 20:03:53 -0800 (PST)
From:      Rostislav Krasny <rosti_bsd@yahoo.com>
To:        Ng Pheng Siong <ngps@netmemetic.com>
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD-SA-04:05.openssl question
Message-ID:  <20040318040353.28031.qmail@web14802.mail.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040318025434.GB875@vista.netmemetic.com>

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--- Ng Pheng Siong <ngps@netmemetic.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 06:20:09PM -0800, Rostislav Krasny wrote:
> > --- Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav <des@des.no> wrote:
> > > From the URL you mentioned: "Most applications have no ability to
> > > use Kerberos ciphersuites and will therefore be unaffected."
> > 
> > Do you imply that applications with ability to use Kerberos
> > ciphersuites are impossible to be implemented for current versions
> > of FreeBSD?
> 
> The text before the above quoted "Most applications have no
> ability..."
> read
> 
>   A remote attacker could perform a carefully crafted SSL/TLS
>   handshake against a server configured to use Kerberos ciphersuites
>   [...]
> 
> Instead of asking about impossibility in the abstract, ask if you do
> run servers that support Kerberos cipthersuites and, if yes, how to
> configure your software to not use them.

My original question was about specified vulnerability of OpenSSL, not
about applicaion that use it.

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