Researchers last week described a cipher-block chaining (CBC) attack via the XML Encryption standard that could compromise secure online transactions. "The attack method "poses a serious and truly ...

The attack, called SWEET32, is a collision attack against these ciphers in CBC mode, or cipher block chaining; 64-bit ciphers such as Blowfish and 3DES are still supported in TLS, IPsec, SSH and ...