El día Saturday, April 12, 2014 a las 03:43:29PM -0400, Michael Smith escribió:
>
> On Apr 12, 2014, at 3:08 PM, Michael Tuexen
> <michael.tue...@lurchi.franken.de> wrote:
> >>
> > I have read the rumor. It is wrong.
>
> "Introduced with intent" vs. "known to the NSA" -- two
> different things, right?
>
> I don't have any direct knowledge of what goes on in the
> NSA, but if they don't have a whole cubicle farm full
> of people looking for vulnerabilities, I'd be surprised.
> OpenSSL would be an obvious high-value target for scrutiny
> just because of its ubiquity.
and one comment more: the bug works in both directions; when a client
with an openssl lib/DLL with this bug connects to a well prepared SSL server,
the server can fetch up to 64 kbyte of memory from the client, for example the
stored saved passwords in your browser...
matthias
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