Friday, May 16th, 2008
A recently disclosed vulnerability in widely used Linux distributions can be exploited by attackers to guess cryptographic keys, possibly leading to the forgery of digital signatures and theft of confidential information, a noted security researcher said Thursday.
HD Moore, best known as the exploit researcher who created the Metasploit penetration testing ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Since version 4.2.0 PHP automatically seeds the random number generators on the first usage of rand() and mt_rand(). This is done with the help of the GENERATE_SEED() macro.
Unfortunately it was discovered that the GENERATE_SEED() macro contains several problems that can lead to a weaker seed than expected. In the worst ...
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