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Impact of the Debian OpenSSL vulnerability

Posted May 19, 2008 20:12 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Impact of the Debian OpenSSL vulnerability by dvdeug
Parent article: Impact of the Debian OpenSSL vulnerability

*Are* they a closely-related group? I thought the similarity of names was 
coincidence: but the similarity in... insular development styles does seem 
like it's stretching coincidence a bit.

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Posted May 20, 2008 1:05 UTC (Tue) by dvdeug (subscriber, #10998) [Link]

Oops... bad assumption. Apparently there's no direct connection between OpenSSL and OpenSSH;
Wikipedia states "Because of the prefix Open- on its name, OpenSSL is often associated with
OpenBSD; which distributes several programs using the naming style of Open*, like OpenSSH.
This is however a mistake as OpenSSL is developed completely outside of the scope of OpenBSD
by The OpenSSL Project".