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External Link: Web Certificate Flaw Not Dangerous

Two sets of researchers revealed that insufficiently random choices of the prime numbers from which encryption keys are derived for Web site SSL/TLS certificates mean that the private parts of the keys can be derived. Fortunately, it's not a flaw in an algorithm, and seems to affect only a small number of sites. Read the whole explanation in Glenn Fleishman's account at Boing Boing. Read the full article at TidBITS, the oldest continuously published technology publication on the Internet. To get a full-text RSS feed, help support our work and become...

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Skrevet av: TidBITS - Thursday, 16 February