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[ILUG] serious Debian/Ubuntu security hole found

[ILUG] serious Debian/Ubuntu security hole found

Steve McConville mcconville.steve at gmail.com
Wed May 14 17:18:03 IST 2008


>  debian/ubuntu have now packaged up a nicer "ssh-vulnkeys" tool that
>  will check the keys, though of course it can only check
>  known-bad ones.

The essence of the problem is that the 'known bad' set is small enough
(~260k, I think) to be calculated in a reasonable period of time.

-- 
steev
http://www.daikaiju.org.uk/~steve/



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