Subj : Re: distro
To   : Dumas Walker
From : Digital Man
Date : Sat Dec 23 2017 02:39 pm

 Re: Re: distro
 By: Dumas Walker to DAITENGU on Sat Dec 23 2017 10:38 am

> >  You don't know what you're talking about.
> >  1. Heartbleed was a bug in OpenSSL.  OpenSSL is not "part of Linux". it
> > is a cryptographic library/toolkit. It is available and used on Solaris,
> > Linux, MacOS, QNX, the various BSD OSes, OpenVMS, Microsoft Windows and
> > even OS/400. think there's an OS/2 port as well, but don't hold me to
> > that.
>
> So basically it affected Windows and Macs, too?  :)

If Windows the Mac computers ran a TLS/SSL server that used OpenSSL, yes.
Microsoft's IIS for example, does not use OpenSSL. Apache and Tomcat for
Windows, for example, do use OpenSSL, so they were vulnerable.

                                           digital man

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