Massive flaw in Debian Linux's Open SSL. Affects thousands.

Courtesy Digg Linux/Unix upcoming  Fri, 05/16/2008 - 13:17

This is just a little more than a "oops" flaw. This is a huge mistake that WILL affect you Ubuntu users as well!"Moore documents the cause of the bug and explains how easily attackers can create every possible key the flawed OpenSSL implementation can generate."


 

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