Re: Re: distro
By: Dumas Walker to DAITENGU on Sat Dec 23 2017 10:38 am
>> You don't know what you're talking about.
>> 1. Heartbleed was a bug in OpenSSL. OpenSSL is not "part of Linux".
>> it is a cryptographic library/toolkit. It is available and used on
>> Solaris, Linux, MacOS, QNX, the various BSD OSes, OpenVMS, Microsoft
>> Windows and even OS/400. think there's an OS/2 port as well, but don't
>> hold me to that.
DW> So basically it affected Windows and Macs, too? :)
Any place that used the OpenSSL Library to do A Thing. The exploit was
specifically written for the https protocol, but it likely could have been
exploited other ways, too.
DaiTengu
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