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Cryptographic weakness on Debian systems

Cryptographic weakness on Debian systems

Posted May 14, 2008 12:42 UTC (Wed) by dion (subscriber, #2764)
In reply to: Cryptographic weakness on Debian systems by welinder
Parent article: Cryptographic weakness on Debian systems


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Cryptographic weakness on Debian systems

Posted May 14, 2008 13:01 UTC (Wed) by tv (subscriber, #32991) [Link]

Kurt did ask about it on the upstream list, too.

Cryptographic weakness on Debian systems

Posted May 14, 2008 18:55 UTC (Wed) by dion (subscriber, #2764) [Link]

Yes, that should ward off the tar+feathers.

When even openssl developers can't tell that the change is catastrophic then he might be
excused.

This does illustrate why blindly fixing warnings is a dangerous and bad idea, though.

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