Debian: A niche OS with a not-so-niche security flaw

Courtesy Debian-News.net  Thu, 09/04/2008 - 11:11

In May of 2008, researchers found a flaw in the Debian GNU/Linux operating system's random number generator, making any OpenSSL keys generated during the past 20 months so predictable that they could be correctly guessed in a matter of hours.


 

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