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Widely-Used PuTTY SSH Client Found Vulnerable to Key Recovery Attack (thehackernews.com)

submitted 9 months ago by kid to c/cybersecurity

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'd consider the ecdsa-sha2-nistp521 private keys used with those versions as compromised, and suggest generating new private keys asap.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Does anyone know if the new versions of putty (or applications using putty likeTortoiseGIT) will warn users about this?