What happened with Fedora - and Red Hat too

Courtesy LWN.net  Fri, 08/22/2008 - 01:57

The Fedora Project has sent out an update describing its "infrastructure issues" in some detail. Yes, it was a security breach.

"One of the compromised Fedora servers was a system used for signing Fedora packages. However, based on our efforts, we have high confidence that the intruder was not able to capture the passphrase used to secure the Fedora package signing key.

Based on our review to date, the passphrase was not used during the time of the intrusion on...

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