OpenSSL PRNG contains design flaw that allows a user to determine internal state and predict future output

Overview The pseudorandom number generator PRNG in OpenSSL has a weakness that allows an attacker to determine its internal state and subsequently determine its future output values. Description OpenSSL's PRNG hashes an internal state to produce output values, which are supposed to be pseudorando...

OpenSSL Security Advisory: PRNG weakness in versions up to 0.9.6a

OpenSSL Security Advisory 10 July 2001 WEAKNESS OF THE OpenSSL PRNG IN VERSIONS UP TO OpenSSL 0.9.6a ------------------------------------------------------------- CONTENTS: - Synopsis - Detailed problem description - Solution - Impact - Source code patch - Acknowledgement OpenSSL 0.9.6b has been...

Catastrophic failure of Strip password generation.

Executive summary: If you have ever used Strip for the Palm to generate your passwords, change them. Change them NOW. Strip Secure Tool for Recalling Important Passwords is a nice encrypted password notebook for the Palm; see http://www.zetetic.net/products.html for details. Strip-0.5 also featur...