* Security Hole in PGP 5.0

From: Dean Huffman (jth@springnet1.com)
Thu Jun 22 15:36:33 2000


Security Hole in PGP 5.0

If you're relying on strong PGP cryptography to protect your files, pay attention to this. A flaw in PGP 5.0's command line versions on Linux and BSD Unix variants will, under certain circumstances, limit the randomness of the keys you generate, which means they can be broken more easily. ComputerWorld has the article while SecurityFocus has the text of the advisory. PGP versions 2.x and 6.5 are not affected by this, nor are ports to other operating systems.

Article: http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E

Advisory: http://www.securityfocus.com/templates/archive.pike?list=1&date=2000-05-22&m sg 000523141323.A28431@olymp.org@olymp.org





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