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In a first, cryptographic keys protecting SSH connections stolen in new attack (arstechnica.com)

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[-] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 80 points 11 months 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.

[-] BorgDrone@lemmy.one 53 points 11 months ago

One in a million is next Tuesday

[-] PlasticExistence@lemmy.world 24 points 11 months ago

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

[-] Damage@feddit.it 24 points 11 months ago

Oh, so like 3 users

[-] deafboy@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months 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.

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