A critical vulnerability in PuTTY, affecting versions 0.68 through 0.80, compromises the security of NIST P-521 private keys.
    • m-p{3}@lemmy.caEnglish
      10·
      3 months ago

      I’d consider the ecdsa-sha2-nistp521 private keys used with those versions as compromised, and suggest generating new private keys asap.

      • leds@feddit.dkEnglish
        3·
        3 months ago

        Does anyone know if the new versions of putty (or applications using putty likeTortoiseGIT) will warn users about this?