Re:PuTTY vulnerability vuln-p521-bias
by chasil on Monday April 15, 2024 @04:00PM
(#40044946)
I use P521 for all my server host keys. Do these need to be rotated after my users upgrade their PuTTY clients?
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Re:PuTTY vulnerability vuln-p521-bias
by germinator on Monday April 15, 2024 @04:03PM
(#40044969)
This exposed client keys, not server keys. The client keys are at risk only in a handful of specific scenarios - e.g., if used to connect to rogue or compromised servers, or used for signing outside SSH.
This is not exploitable by simply passively watching traffic, so even for client keys, if you're certain that they were used in a constrained way, you should be fine. The difficulty is knowing that for sure, so it's still prudent to rotate.
> (The problem is not with how the key was originally generated; it doesn't matter whether it came from PuTTYgen or somewhere else. What matters is whether it was ever used with PuTTY or Pageant.)
Sounds like your server keys are safe.
I mean it also sounds like you'd need to be using a exploited server, or give the hacker access to your pageant...