David Wong

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cryptography, security, and random thoughts

Hey! I'm David, cofounder of zkSecurity, research advisor at Archetype, and author of the Real-World Cryptography book. I was previously a cryptography architect of Mina at O(1) Labs, the security lead for Libra/Diem at Facebook, and a security engineer at the Cryptography Services of NCC Group. Welcome to my blog about cryptography, security, and other related topics.

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Heartbleed : serious vulnerability in open SSL

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We have tested some of our own services from attacker’s perspective. We attacked ourselves from outside, without leaving a trace. Without using any privileged information or credentials we were able steal from ourselves the secret keys used for our X.509 certificates, user names and passwords, instant messages, emails and business critical documents and communication.

A pretty bad bug has been found in open SSL during the Codenomicon. more info here: http://heartbleed.com/

List of vulnerable websites from the Alexa top 10,000 websites: https://gist.github.com/dberkholz/10169691

You can test a website here: http://filippo.io/Heartbleed/

And also, if you have a lot of time to waste, this random dude seems to know a lot about it :D

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