> 1) What are the consequences to the ordinary user? None. The ordinary user is such an easy target that as bad as this attack is, I don't see it as making things any worse.
> All the news are lacking information on that. Can you point relevant > examples? Not yet. Give it a few days: news reports will develop, Wikipedia will be updated, and so on. > 2) (specific question) Does Firefox use openssl to connect to some > servers while browsing? https://www.google.com/search?q=does+firefox+use+openssl No, it does not. Nor does Chrome. > 3) How about Ubuntu and other OSs? Do they use openssl to update > themselves? (as in "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade"). Usually not. Repositories are normally accessed via HTTP, not HTTPS. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users