Subj : Re: distro
To   : Dumas Walker
From : DaiTengu
Date : Mon Dec 25 2017 15:19:38

  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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