[dundee] 'Severe' OpenSSL vuln busts public key crypto

[Robert Ladyman]

Blimey, that is a severe password-change policy.

> It seems massively unfeasible; as an alternative I'd be inclined to
> kidnap someones family until they gave me the key and the pass phrase.
> 
> Kris
> 
> On 4 March 2010 22:21, Arron M Finnon <finux at finux.co.uk> wrote:
> > Not too practical in the real world, but you never know it could lead to
> > more things
> >
> > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/04/severe_openssl_vulnerability/
> >
> > Computer scientists say they've discovered a "severe vulnerability" in
> > the world's most widely used software encryption package that allows
> > them to retrieve a machine's secret cryptographic key.
> >
> >
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