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Length Hiding Padding for the Transport Layer Security Protocol
draft-pironti-tls-length-hiding-02

Document Type Expired Internet-Draft (individual)
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Authors Alfredo Pironti , Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
Last updated 2014-03-15 (Latest revision 2013-09-11)
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Abstract

This memo proposes length hiding methods of operation for the TLS protocol. It defines a TLS extension to allow arbitrary amount of padding in any TLS ciphersuite, and it presents guidelines and a reference implementation of record fragmentation and padding so that the length of the exchanged messages is effectively concealed within a given range of lengths. The latter guidelines also apply to the standard TLS padding allowed by the TLS block ciphers.

Authors

Alfredo Pironti
Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos

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