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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 (4 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

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