travis+ml-cryptogra...@subspacefield.org wrote:
> http://www.matasano.com/log/1749/typing-the-letters-a-e-s-into-your-code-youre-doing-it-wrong/
> 
> Towards the end of this rather offbeat blog post they describe a
> rather clever attack which is possible when the application provides
> error messages (i.e. is an error oracle) for PKCS7 padding in e.g. AES
> CBC-encrypted web authenticators that allows an adversary to attack
> the crypto one octet at a time.

I think this attack can be attributed to Klima and Rosa:

Side Channel Attacks on CBC Encrypted Messages in the PKCS#7 Format.
V. Klima and T. Rosa.
http://eprint.iacr.org/2003/098.pdf

-James

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