david wong

Hey! I'm David, cofounder of zkSecurity and the author of the Real-World Cryptography book. I was previously a crypto architect at O(1) Labs (working on the Mina cryptocurrency), before that I was the security lead for Diem (formerly Libra) at Novi (Facebook), and a security consultant for the Cryptography Services of NCC Group. This is my blog about cryptography and security and other related topics that I find interesting.

BEAST: An Explanation of the CBC Attack on TLS posted July 2017

I made a video explaining the BEAST attack. As usual it's more of an overview so head over to something like this for more details.

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Dan

Good explanation! However one slight issue. BEAST doesn't involve a padding oracle. I think you might be thinking of POODLE. A padding oracle is something that takes a ciphertext as input, decrypts it, and if a padding error is encountered reports it back to the person who submitted the ciphertext. Thanks!

david

oh my of course! I need to fix this. Did I say it was a padding oracle in the video itself? I hope I didn't :)

Thanks for pointing this out Dan.

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