Antwort: Re: [suse-security] SuSE Security Announcement: openssl (SuSE-SA:2002:027)
Please correct me if i am wrong, but i thought OpenSSL is a Serverpackage which runs on Servers and SSL implemented in Webbrowser just snatch at this implementation?! Mit freundlichen Grüßen Marko Muncan arxes Network Communication Consulting AG Im Auftrag der BBS GmbH IM-CAS-CSE Tel.: +49 214/30-31000 E-Mail: marko.muncan.mm@bayer-ag.de Internet : http://www.bayer-ag.de |---------+---------------------------------------------------------------> | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | suse-security-return-14937-marko.muncan.mm=bayer-ag.de@suse.c| | | om | | | Received : 31.07.2002 11:09 | | | | |---------+--------------------------------------------------------------->
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Hi, does anyone know if web browsers like Opera, Netscape etc. are vulnerable, too? What kind of ssl implementation do they use, openssl or. sth else? Thx! Best regards, Frank -- Dipl.-Inform. Frank Steiner mailto:fst@informatik.uni-kiel.de Lehrstuhl f. Programmiersprachen mailto:fsteiner@web.de CAU Kiel, Olshausenstraße 40 Phone: +49 431 880-7265, Fax: -7613 D-24098 Kiel, Germany http://www.informatik.uni-kiel.de/~fst/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: suse-security-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands, e-mail: suse-security-help@suse.com Security-related bug reports go to security@suse.de, not here
Please correct me if i am wrong, but i thought OpenSSL is a Serverpackage which runs on Servers and SSL implemented in Webbrowser just snatch at this implementation?!
No, it also provides cryptography libraries that everything from web browsers to OpenSSH [can] use to provide their encryption. I dunno about Opera/Netscape, but lynx and links certainly link to OpenSSL... -- James Ogley, Unix Systems Administrator, Pinnacle Insurance Plc james.ogley@pinnacle.co.uk www.pinnacle.co.uk +44 (0) 20 8731 3619 Using Free Software since 1994, running GNU/Linux (SuSE 8.0) Updated GNOME RPMs for SuSE Linux: www.usr-local-bin.org ********************************************************************** CONFIDENTIALITY.This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the named recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to another person, use it for any purpose, or store or copy the information in any medium. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Pinnacle Insurance plc. If you have received this email in error please immediately notify the Pinnacle Helpdesk on +44 (0) 20 8207 9555. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.mimesweeper.com **********************************************************************
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