On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 4:21 PM, Nick Murtagh <nickm at go2.ie> wrote:
> >From what point of view? Could someone take the public cert and
> derive the private key from it?
I am not expert enough in cryptography to be able to answer that one
on my own :) From the advisory, it was just stated that all keys
CREATED on a Debian host is considered at risk. It does apply even if
your cert was created on another system since your key has been
created on a Debian host which had that vulnerable package.
Steph
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