TLS renegotiation MITM

[Simon Josefsson]

Steve Dispensa <dispensa at phonefactor.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> A colleague and I have released details of a new attack against TLS in the
> area of renegotiation. Information is here:
>
> http://extendedsubset.com/?p=8
>
> During the process of running this bug (and its proposed solution) to
> ground, I implemented a patch to GNUTLS, attached. There are also two new
> files that implement the extension that solves the problem.
>
> There is lots of background in the above link, but the one missing part is
> the Internet Draft that has been tentatively agreed on by most of the major
> vendors (pending IETF action, of course). That draft is what I have
> implemented, and you should see it posted to the TLS IETF list tomorrow
> morning.
>
> I'd be happy to help in any way I can.

What GnuTLS version is your patch for?  We haven't used a configure.in
file in a long time.  Would you mind reworking it for GnuTLS 2.8.x
and/or 2.9.x?  Those are the latest stable and experimental branches.

Once the copyright paper issue has been resolved, we could integrate it.

/Simon