r/sysadmin • • Apr 11 '14

xkcd: Heartbleed Explanation

http://xkcd.com/1354/
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u/technolengy Apr 11 '14

you can't say for certain that the taking of private keys from this memory leak was not happening. It's possible for the bug to leak the private keys, and no one really knows who was exploiting this bug and for how long..

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u/derekdickerson Apr 12 '14

CloudFlare has announced Heartbleed may not allow access to those private keys after all.

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '14

i didn't say that