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How to Break XML Encryption – Automatically

How to Break XML Encryption

XML Encryption implementations remain open to adaptive chosen-ciphertext attacks that recover the plaintext of encrypted XML without any key. The authors systematise those attacks and automate them in a WS-Attacker plugin that scans an encrypted message, picks the applicable weakness and decrypts it, breaking four of five web service stacks.

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How to Break XML Encryption
Researcher
Dennis Kupser, Christian Mainka, Jorg Schwenk and Juraj Somorovsky
Published by
usenix.org
Topic
Crypto

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