rfc-7457

Summarizing Known Attacks on Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Datagram TLS (DTLS)

Y. Sheffer, R. Holz, P. Saint-Andre
date2015-02 streamIETF areasec wguta statusINFORMATIONAL pages13 canonicalhttps://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7457 doi10.17487/RFC7457 errataview
Over the last few years, there have been several serious attacks on Transport Layer Security (TLS), including attacks on its most commonly used ciphers and modes of operation. This document summarizes these attacks, with the goal of motivating generic and protocol-specific recommendations on the usage of TLS and Datagram TLS (DTLS).