TLS Renegotiation and Load Balancers
I seem to be fielding more and more questions of late around the rather well-known SSLv3 and TLS renegotiation flaw. For those who aren’t familiar, the TLS renegotiation flaw allows the injection of data into a SSLv3 or TLS stream, potentially causing data injection or the program to misbehave in some other fashion. It is not a full man-in-the-middle attack because the attacker can’t read what’s in the data stream, only inject into it. Ultimately, this is a protocol flaw—one that’s been fixed as an extension to TLS as…