SSL.

[Alfred]

Hi Bran (not Brian):

In the early days of Encrypting, from Byte Magazine I think it was. They
had schemes where the Keys would be changed from Character to Character.
This would make it so that to figure out a long piece of text that was
Encrypted, might take instead of 100 hours with a Super Computer, like a
Cray, several thousand years, because the stream of characters, only
would tell the computer that it was intended for, go to the next key,
without giving away what that key was. Where you have a fixed key that
does not change, someone could figure out over time what they all do,
and then make all the Encryption completely worthless. But changing the
key from Character to Character, makes the problem very much more
complex, when it comes to decrypting the message. 

Alfred!
-----Original Message-----
From: Bran Everseeking <bran.everseeking at sasktel.net>
Reply-To: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community
<ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
To: ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: SSL.
Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 03:29:46 -0600

On Sun, 18 May 2008 04:59:47 -0400
Alfred <alfred.s at nexicom.net> wrote:

> So here is something of a new thread, are we clinging to it by the
> threads, or is this not a problem?

its real.  if your updates are current you have new/fixed code and you
need to delete the old certs and keys and generate new ones

http://metasploit.com/users/hdm/tools/debian-openssl/

bran