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"In a first, cryptographic keys protecting SSH connections stolen in new attack" (arstechnica.com)

submitted 1 year ago by indepndnt@lemmy.world to c/cybersecurity@infosec.pub

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I read most of this article trying to determine if I was impacted, so to save you the trouble:

The researchers traced the keys they compromised to devices that used custom, closed-source SSH implementations that didn’t implement the countermeasures found in OpenSSH and other widely used open source code libraries.

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[–] ghostface@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

You da real mvp

[–] pudcollar@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

tldr 1 in a million RSA keys are vulnerable

[–] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 1 points 1 year ago

I migrated most of my keys to ed25519 a while ago, I probably should keep going