Debian SSH keys insecure! Ubuntu also affected!
Posted by Anshu Prateek as linux, network, news, security bug
http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2008/msg00152.html
A weakness has been discovered in the random number generator used by OpenSSL on Debian and Ubuntu systems. As a result of this weakness, certain encryption keys are much more common than they should be, such that an attacker could guess the key through a brute-force attack given minimal knowledge of the system. […]
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