• lemmyvore
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    811 year ago

    Only affects RSA keys, and then only 1 in a million keys are vulnerable. So this is mostly of academic (rather than practical) interest, but nevertheless it will lead to further hardening of the SSH protocol which is nice.

    • @PlasticExistence
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      251 year ago

      It also appears to only affect non-OpenSSH secure shell implementations.

    • @deafboy
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      11 year ago

      Security of a sufficiently long RSA key was the one true constant in my life. Poof… There it goes!

      Once attackers have possession of the secret key through passive observation of traffic, they can mount an active Mallory-in-the-middle

      Mallory in the middle would be a sick punkrock band name though.