On 05/13/2014 01:29 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote:
> 
> On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 4:21 PM, David Nolan
> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
> wrote:
> 
>     While SSH is not affected directly by the heartbleed bug, if you
>     have a server that was affected by the heartbleed bug there is some
>     risk that the SSH private key may have been exposed.
> 
> 
> This requires that you somehow got the ssh private key into the memory
> of an SSL-using process. I would argue that if that was possible, you
> already had a pretty significant security hole.

The only possibility I can think of is if you're using HTTPS as a way of
distributing SSH private keys. I've never heard of anyone doing such a
thing, but I suppose someone's probably tried it.

Skylar
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