DROWN Security Flaw Is Bad, But It's Not Heartbleed or OpenSSL's Fault

Posted by Mcusanelli on Mar 2, 2016 7:58 PM EDT
www.thevarguy.com; By Chris Tozzi
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DROWN is the latest major security vulnerability to affect the open source OpenSSL encryption library, but it's not the same as Heartbleed.

For the second time in as many years, HTTPS encryption has turned out to have a huge flaw. This time, it's called DROWN, and it affects more than 11 million servers that use the open source OpenSSL library. But that doesn't make it another Heartbleed, and it doesn't mean it's time to give up on OpenSSL entirely.

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