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In a first, cryptographic keys protecting SSH connections stolen in new attack (arstechnica.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 81 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

Oh, so like 3 users

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year 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.