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Unless the maintainer of your distro's ssh package accidentally introduces an error that reduces the number of possible keys to, say - 32,767 total possible key
by sophacles 3y ago
Unless the maintainer of your distro's ssh package accidentally introduces an error that reduces the number of possible keys to, say - 32,767 total possible keys.[1] That's a brute-forcible number of keys that fail2ban would help mitigate.
(1: https://research.swtch.com/openssl https://research.swtch.com/openssl)
- rerdavies 3y agoOr the NSA subverts a cryptographic standard in order to produce predictable seeds for cryptographic random-number generators that are used to produce private keys. [1] (1: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-24048343 https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-24048343 )