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this post was submitted on 13 Nov 2023
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Only affects RSA keys, and then only 1 in a million keys are vulnerable. So this is mostly of academic (rather than practical) interest, but nevertheless it will lead to further hardening of the SSH protocol which is nice.
One in a million is next Tuesday
It also appears to only affect non-OpenSSH secure shell implementations.
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Security of a sufficiently long RSA key was the one true constant in my life. Poof... There it goes!
Mallory in the middle would be a sick punkrock band name though.