Re: openssl and NSA backdoor

2013-12-22 Thread Greg Woods
On Sat, 2013-12-21 at 17:14 -0700, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: > > > And what about our certificates? Are they more or less useless now? > > There are no vulnerabilities related to X.509 certificates generated > by OpenSSL (on Fedora or otherwise) that I am aware of. The big vulnerability in the

Re: openssl and NSA backdoor

2013-12-21 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Mike Wright wrote: > I've been trying to find out if the versions of openssl shipped by fedora > use the "Dual Elliptical Curve" encryption method that RSA so politely (for > a tidy $um) made default at the request of the US's NSA. That is the > encryption method w

Re: openssl and NSA backdoor

2013-12-21 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 8:05 PM, Mike Wright wrote: > 've been trying to find out if the versions of openssl shipped by fedora > use the "Dual Elliptical Curve" encryption method that RSA so politely (for > a tidy $um) made default at the request of the US's NSA. That is the > encryption method wi

Re: openssl and NSA backdoor

2013-12-21 Thread Roger
On 12/22/2013 07:05 AM, Mike Wright wrote: Hi all, After Edward Snowden spilled the beans on the NSA I've become extremely paranoid about system security. If not the NSA, who else? I've been trying to find out if the versions of openssl shipped by fedora use the "Dual Elliptical Curve" encr

openssl and NSA backdoor

2013-12-21 Thread Mike Wright
Hi all, After Edward Snowden spilled the beans on the NSA I've become extremely paranoid about system security. If not the NSA, who else? I've been trying to find out if the versions of openssl shipped by fedora use the "Dual Elliptical Curve" encryption method that RSA so politely (for a t