Traffic Analysis of the LTE Mobile Standard
Interesting research in using traffic analysis to learn things about encrypted traffic. It’s hard to know how critical these vulnerabilities are. They’re very hard to close without wasting a huge amount of bandwidth.
The active attacks are more interesting.
EDITED TO ADD (7/3): More information.
I have been thinking about this, and now believe the attacks are more serious than I previously wrote.
Herman • July 2, 2018 10:26 AM
Through traffic analysis they can tell which website was accessed. Therefore they could then launch a known plain text attack against the encryption system.