Cryptographic weakness on Debian systems [LWN.net]

Cryptographic weakness on Debian systems

Posted May 13, 2008 21:03 UTC (Tue) by lab (subscriber, #51153)
In reply to: Cryptographic weakness on Debian systems by maks
Parent article: Cryptographic weakness on Debian systems

Hmmm.. Can I just ask a stupid question - how come the OpenSSH package in Ubuntu is affected,
but not in Debian?

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-612-2

"A weakness has been discovered in the random number generator used by OpenSSL on Debian and
Ubuntu systems. As a result of this weakness, certain encryption keys are much more common
than they should be, such that an attacker could guess the key through a brute-force attack
given minimal knowledge of the system. This particularly affects the use of encryption keys in
OpenSSH."

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Cryptographic weakness on Debian systems

Posted May 14, 2008 0:16 UTC (Wed) by cjwatson (subscriber, #7322) [Link]

It's affected in exactly the same sense (i.e. only as collateral damage) in Debian too;
unfortunately problems due to the advisory itself have made it difficult to publish an OpenSSH
update in Debian, but it should be on its way soon.