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OpenSSL: FREAK Attack Advisory - Weakened Encryption Risk

Calendar Mar 04, 2015 • User Avatar Anthony Pell
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security advisory OpenSSL cyber threat man-in-the-middle encryption flaw SSL clients
For the nth time in the last couple of years, security experts are warning about a new Internet-scale vulnerability, this time in some popular SSL clients. The flaw allows an attacker to force clients to downgrade to weakened ciphers and break their supposedly encrypted communications through a man-in-the-middle attack.

Researchers recently discovered that some SSL clients, including OpenSSL, will accept weak RSA keys

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