It doesn’t look that simple to me. From the Terrapin paper:
Although we suggest backward-compatible countermea-
sures to stop our attacks, we note that the security of the SSH
protocol would benefit from a redesign from scratch. This
redesign should be guided by all findings and insights from
both practical and theoretical security analysis, in a similar
manner as was done for TLS 1.3.
It seems the protocol itself needs a revision and implementation-specific patches are easier and less-than-ideal solutions.
One could argue that even these solutions they provide are already changes to the protocol, and not just fixes to implementation bugs. Both the Sequence Number Reset and Full Transcript Hash add or change functionality at the communication protocol level, rather than simply covering corner cases.
It doesn’t look that simple to me. From the Terrapin paper:
It seems the protocol itself needs a revision and implementation-specific patches are easier and less-than-ideal solutions.
One could argue that even these solutions they provide are already changes to the protocol, and not just fixes to implementation bugs. Both the Sequence Number Reset and Full Transcript Hash add or change functionality at the communication protocol level, rather than simply covering corner cases.
Whole system rewrites are almost never a good idea
they are when fundamental assumptions change
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