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Akamai Reissues All SSL Certificates After Admitting Heartbleed Patch Was Faulty
SpacemanukBEJY.53u (3309653) writes "It took security researcher Willem Pinckaers all of 15 minutes to spot a flaw in code created by Akamai that the company thought shielded most of its users from one of the pernicious aspects of the Heartbleed flaw in OpenSSL. More than a decade ago, Akamai modified parts of OpenSSL it felt were weak related to key storage. Akamai CTO Andy Ellis wrote last week that the modification protected most customers from having their private SSL stolen despite the Heartbleed bug. But on Sunday Ellis wrote Akamai was wrong after Pinckaers found several flaws in the code. Akamai is now reissuing all SSL certificates and keys to its customers."
for having the integrity to admit that they screwed up the first time.
What is 'verisign' ... I mean, I know of the company named verisign that functions as a root CA, but they don't have magical certs that are safe, they are just like all other certs.
A quick Google search yields too much about the company, can you point me at what you're referring to so I can clear my ignorance?
Persistent Volume manager for Kubernetes - https://github.com/dwimsey/openshift-pvmanager
The fact that they are re-issuing certificates clearly indicates that they were open to Heartbleed.
That seems to be the US thing, where trying to fix a problem is taken as admission of guilt. (I heard this weird story that US hospitals have a problem if one of their X-ray machines breaks and the replacement is a better model, because anyone examined using the older machines can claim they didn't get the best possible treatment).