The follow-on links are pretty good too.

   -- Owen


On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 10:20 AM, Joshua Thorp <jos...@stigmergic.net>wrote:

> according to
> https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/04/heartbleed.html
>
> http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/55382/heartbleed-read-only-the-next-64k-and-hyping-the-threat
>
> apparently the bug gives access to 64K chunk of ram on the server.  The
> private key might be in that chunk,  but probably won't be...  however you
> will get different chunks over time so if you wait long enough you might
> end up with a chunk that has a private key or someone's password.
>
> --joshua
>
> On Apr 10, 2014, at 10:05 AM, Owen Densmore <o...@backspaces.net> wrote:
>
> Hi Barry.  How would the private keys be exposed?  The pub/priv
> computation is done locally, right?
>
> BTW: All node servers are secure due to their ssl config turning off the
> "heartbeat" option.  NodeWeekly:
>  Node 0.8.x and 0.10.2+ Not Vulnerable to Heartbleed 
> Issue<http://nodeweekly.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=0618f6a79d6bb9675f313ceb2&id=48089106bd&e=5de03852bb>
>  -- Popular Node versions aren't exposed to the Heartbleed 
> vulnerability<http://nodeweekly.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0618f6a79d6bb9675f313ceb2&id=f4a4a00af1&e=5de03852bb>
>  as
> the heartbeat extension was turned off in a Node commit a year ago. Yay.
> *GITHUB*
>
>    -- Owen
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 9:51 AM, Barry MacKichan <
> barry.mackic...@mackichan.com> wrote:
>
>> It is a major PITA. Certificates on affected servers (which include
>> Amazon EC2 Linus servers) may have had their private keys exposed, so
>> certificates have to be reissued with different keys. This is, apparently,
>> a major bottleneck.
>>
>> --Barry
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 9 Apr 2014, at 21:23, Owen Densmore wrote:
>>
>>  Worth knowing about:
>>>
>>> http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/04/
>>> 09/major-bug-called-heartbleed-exposes-data-across-the-internet/
>>>
>>> Pretty serious crypto flaw.
>>>
>>> [image: Inline image 1]
>>> -- Owen
>>>
>>> [image.png]
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