Re: Major bug called 'Heartbleed' exposes Internet data

Posted by Barry MacKichan on
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Fwd-Major-bug-called-Heartbleed-exposes-Internet-data-tp7585135p7585138.html

It is a major PITA. Certificates on affected servers (which include
Amazon EC2 Linus servers) may have had their private keys exposed, so
certificates have to be reissued with different keys. This is,
apparently, a major bottleneck.

—Barry



On 9 Apr 2014, at 21:23, Owen Densmore wrote:

> Worth knowing about:
>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/04/09/major-bug-called-heartbleed-exposes-data-across-the-internet/
>
> Pretty serious crypto flaw.
>
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> -- Owen
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