[Wolves] This will make you NOY wet yourself (Etch SSL/SSH key issue)

David Goodwin david at codepoets.co.uk
Tue May 13 17:03:13 BST 2008


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ArchLinuxUser dick_turpin wrote:
| Hi All
|
| Read all of this, I laughed solid for ten minutes with tears streaming
| down my face.
|
|
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/1952260/Drunk-Darth-Vader-escapes-jail-sentence.html
|

This on the other hand won't -

http://lwn.net/Articles/281901/


It apparently means there are a finite (2**15?) number of SSL keys to
try if you're trying to hack into someone's box.

So if you've generated an SSL or SSH key on Debian Etch, you probably
need to regenerate it.



David.
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David Goodwin

[ david at codepoets dot co dot uk ]
[ http://www.codepoets.co.uk       ]
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