Re: [Hampshire] OpenSSL in Debian is broken

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Author: Hugo Mills
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To: hampshire
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] OpenSSL in Debian is broken

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gpg: failed to create temporary file '/var/lib/lurker/.#lk0x57ece100.hantslug.org.uk.11176': Permission denied
gpg: keyblock resource '/var/lib/lurker/pubring.gpg': Permission denied
gpg: Signature made Wed May 14 17:19:25 2008 BST
gpg: using DSA key 20ACB3BE515C238D
gpg: Can't check signature: No public key
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 03:30:28PM +0100, Damian Brasher wrote:
> Steve Kemp wrote:
>
> > The pain of this one is that a security update will only prevent you
> > from creating weak keys in the future - it doesn't protect you in any
> > way from any keys you've created previously which are now trivially
> > crackable ..
>
> However the end result is that Open Source model has allowed this error to
> be spotted and fixed within the day.


The problem was known about in January -- that's when the CVE
number was allocated. It wasn't discovered and fixed in the space of a
day.

Hugo.

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