You get the routers to create valid-looking certificates for the endpoints, to mount man-in-the-middle attacks.
On Mar 13, 2014, at 6:28 , Jason Iannone <jason.iann...@gmail.com> wrote: > The First Look article is light on details so I don't know how one gets from > "infect[ing] large-scale network routers" to "perform[ing] “exploitation > attacks” against data that is sent through a Virtual Private Network." I'd > like to better understand that. > > > On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 7:22 AM, Jeffrey Walton <noloa...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 9:17 AM, Jason Iannone <jason.iann...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Are there details regarding Hammerstein? Are they actually breaking > > routers? > Cisco makes regular appearances on Bugtraq an Full Disclosure. Pound > for pound, there's probably more exploits for Cisco gear than Linux > and Windows combined. > > Jeff > > > On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 2:40 AM, Jeffrey Walton <noloa...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 1:57 AM, coderman <coder...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > > >> > https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/1076891/there-is-more-than-one-way-to-quantum.pdf > >> > > >> > "TAO implants were deployed via QUANTUMINSERT to targets that were > >> > un-exploitable by _any_ other means." > >> > > >> And Schneier's Guardian article on the Quantum and FoxAcid systems: > >> > >> http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/04/tor-attacks-nsa-users-online-anonymity. > > > > -- > PGP Public Key: 2048R/AC65B29D > _______________________________________________ > cryptography mailing list > cryptography@randombit.net > http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography Greg. Phone: +1 619 890 8236 secure voice / text: Seecrypt +28131139047 (referral code 54smjs if you want to try it). PGP: 09D3E64D 350A 797D 5E21 8D47 E353 7566 ACFB D945 (id says g...@usenix.org, but don’t use that email) _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list cryptography@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
