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Re:OpenSSL Security Advisory: TLS heartbeat read overrun by grittygrease on Monday April 07, 2014 @03:28PM (#7548754)
If your site is protected by CloudFlare (like HN is), you are automatically protected from this vulnerability (see: http://blog.cloudflare.com/staying-ahead-of-openssl-vulnerab...).
Re:OpenSSL Security Advisory: TLS heartbeat read overrun by ars on Monday April 07, 2014 @07:05PM (#7550278)
You are protected now. But you were not before, so if any attacker figured this out before the public disclosure then you have [possibly] already been attacked and compromised.
Re:OpenSSL Security Advisory: TLS heartbeat read overrun by extrapolate on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @03:25AM (#7551905)
Not entirely correct, as the blog post states: > We fixed this vulnerability last week before it was made public.

Although there's still the other 103 weeks this was vulnerable to worry about.

Re:OpenSSL Security Advisory: TLS heartbeat read overrun by amalcon on Monday April 07, 2014 @05:37PM (#7549706)
This is perhaps somewhat misleading. It's possible that this bug was being actively exploited before now, so you should change your keys even if you use a CDN (all the majors have already fixed this as far as I'm aware).
Re:OpenSSL Security Advisory: TLS heartbeat read overrun by smtddr on Monday April 07, 2014 @06:02PM (#7549879)
Perhaps Cloudfare should note that the "up to 64kB" isn't entirely correct.

http://heartbleed.com/

>>There is no total of 64 kilobytes limitation to the attack, that limit applies only to a single heartbeat. Attacker can either keep reconnecting or during an active TLS connection keep requesting arbitrary number of 64 kilobyte chunks of memory content until enough secrets are revealed.