We discuss this exact attack (and blog post) in Section 5.1 of the paper :).
IIRC: it was missed by both an academic analysis of LE and a 3rd party audit of their crypto design. Thankfully Andrew spotted it a few weeks before they went live in major browsers!
IIRC: it was missed by both an academic analysis of LE and a 3rd party audit of their crypto design. Thankfully Andrew spotted it a few weeks before they went live in major browsers!