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Confirmed: nasty Heartbleed bug exposes OpenVPN private keys too

Matthew Hadley Private encryption keys have been successfully extracted multiple times from a virtual private network server running the widely used OpenVPN application with a vulnerable version of OpenSSL, adding yet more urgency to the call for operators to fully protect their systems against the catastrophic Heartbleed bug. Developers who maintain the open-source OpenVPN package previously warned that private keys underpinning VPN sessions were vulnerable to Heartbleed.

 

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