Root Causes 328: What Is the Debian Weak Key Flaw?

23/08/2023 6 min
Root Causes 328: What Is the Debian Weak Key Flaw?

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Episode Synopsis

In 2008 the world of SSL was shocked by the discovery of a flaw in a popular operating system that limited the total set of possible private keys on this OS to about 32,000. We explain what happened, industry response, and its consequences.