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Impact of the Debian OpenSSL vulnerability

Impact of the Debian OpenSSL vulnerability

Posted May 20, 2008 1:05 UTC (Tue) by dvdeug (subscriber, #10998)
In reply to: Impact of the Debian OpenSSL vulnerability by nix
Parent article: Impact of the Debian OpenSSL vulnerability

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".


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