For almost two years the OpenSSL library used by Linux distribution Debian has been generating useless cryptographic keys — although Debian has issued a patch, experts warn that systems may still be ...

If you're a Linux user sitting content in the knowledge that your open-source operating system is free from the security issues that plague other operating systems then you might want to double-check ...

When news broke last year about the serious flaw in the Debian OpenSSL pseudorandom number generator, security experts knew it was a serious problem and warned users to regenerate any keys that had ...

Debian, the popular Linux distribution, has just been shown to have made an all-time stupid security goof-up. They managed to change OpenSSL in their distribution so that it had no security to speak ...

Within OpenSSL, the valgrind memory management profiler can use uninitialised memory as a potential source of entropy/randomness; the change introduced by the Debian developer removed two lines of ...

So, for those who haven't heard, a Debian packager modified the source used for OpenSSL on Debian based systems (Debian and the whole of the Ubuntu family) to remove the seed used for PRNG (Pseudo ...

Debian, especially its stable branch, is widely regarded as perhaps the most bulletproof Linux distribution. Debian also has the not undeserved reputation of being difficult for those new to Linux to ...

Ten days ago, a Debian Security Advisory (DSA-1571-1) was released that detailed a flaw in the OpenSSL cryptographic libraries that affects both Debian and other Linux distributions derived from ...