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Checking Debian Based OpenSSL/OpenSSH Keys Against The Blacklist

Recently there has been a serious security vulnerability with OpenSSL/SSH keys generated on Debian based systems. Since I use Ubuntu at home I wanted to check to see if any of my keys needed to be regenerated. I wasn’t sure if they update automatically regenerated them for you or just checked the keys against the blacklist. Since there are many applications that generate keys I thought it would be best to manually verify them. For more insight into the problem I’ve quoted the Metasploit article found here.

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