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PUTTY SSH CLIENT FLAW ALLOWS RECOVERY OF CRYPTOGRAPHIC PRIVATE KEYS

bleepingcomputer.com3 min read

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A vulnerability in PuTTY 0.68-0.80 could allow attackers with access to 60 cryptographic signatures from a user to compute the private keys offline. These signatures could come from an attacker-controlled SSH server or signed git commits. The vulnerability arises from the way that PuTTY generates ECDSA nonces, which lacks robust cryptographic random number generators on specific Windows versions.