RE: AEAD in ssh

Peter Gutmann <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.secsh
Message-ID <9A043F3CF02CD34C8E74AC1594475C73F4BFF51D@uxcn10-5.UoA.auckland.ac.nz>
denis bider <[email protected]> writes:

>That implementation, with unencrypted packet lengths, sabotages any hope of
>thwarting traffic analysis, even through high-overhead SSH_MSG_IGNORE padding.

With encrypted packet lengths and padding you're still not thwarting traffic
analysis, you're just making the job a lot more difficult for the implementer.
See my previous message.

Peter.
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