Flaw Made Public In OpenSSH Encryption (Slashdot)
Posted by adminMay 21
alimo20 writes “Researchers at the Royal Holloway, University of London have discovered a flaw in Version 4.7 of OpenSSH on Debian/GNU Linux. According to ISG lead professor Kenny Patterson, an attacker has a 2^{-18} (that is, one in 262,144) chance of success. Patterson tells that this is more significant than past discoveries because ‘This is a design flaw in OpenSSH. The other vulnerabilities …
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