Hanno Böck - IT Security
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Vulnerabilities found

I have discovered the following notable vulnerabilities (sometimes in teams with others):

  • 16 years of CVE-2008-0166 - Debian OpenSSL Bug - Breaking DKIM and BIMI in 2024
  • Bypassing HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) in common configurations with Firefox (CVE-2024-0753)
  • STARTTLS weaknesses (2021) in e-mail servers and clients.
  • Nonce-Disrespecting Adversaries (2016) - an attack on AES-GCM implementation flaws in TLS
  • ROBOT (2017) - Return of Bleichenbacher's Oracle Threat - vulnerability breaking RSA encryption due to TLS implementation flaws.

Other noteworthy achievements:

  • I convinced the certificate authority Symantec to revoke a certificate based on a fake private key.
  • I built Gentoo Linux with Address Sanitizer, finding countless memory safety bugs in many core Open Source software packages.
  • 2018 Pwnie Award for Best Cryptographic Attack.

I am developing the following Open Source security tools:

  • badkeys - detecting cryptographic public keys with known vulnerabilities.
  • snallygaster - finding file leaks on websites.
  • freewvs - scans web roots for known vulnerable web applications.
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