Company
Date Published
April 17, 2014
Author
Nick Sullivan
Word count
1478
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

On April 17, 2014, Nick Sullivan discussed the Heartbleed vulnerability and its impact on CloudFlare. The company issued a challenge to find out if their private keys were at risk due to this bug. After revoking and reissuing all SSL certificates they manage, they concluded that within two hours a dedicated attacker could retrieve a private key from a vulnerable server. They recommend administrators running servers using vulnerable versions of OpenSSL to patch the software and reissue and revoke all their private keys.