OpenSSL

(Open Secure Sockets Layer) An open source version of the SSL and TLS security protocols. Used in more than a half million Web servers on the Internet, OpenSSL runs under every popular operating system. See SSL, TLS and Heartbleed.

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FlashRouters will guarantee a minimum donation of $5000 to DD-WRT, Tomato, & OpenSSL teams over the next year.

FLASHROUTERS DEBUTS NETWORKING SECURITY SOLUTION

As described on the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures Website, the TLS and DTLS implementations in OpenSSL 1.

Array Networks products 'unaffected by virus'

The Heartbleed Bug exposes via Internet, the memory of the systems protected by the vulnerable versions of the OpenSSL software.

EXIGIS Confirms No Vulnerability to Heartbleed Bug

based Navy Federal Credit Union said, "The security vulnerability called 'Heartbleed' only affects websites that use an OpenSSL, or open source encryption technology.

Heartbleed Malware impact still yet to be known, felt

Reuters cited comments from Scott Totzke, BlackBerry senior vice president, who stressed that most of the Canadian firm's products did not use OpenSSL.

BlackBerry to release Heartbleed patches

If the Federal government, including the intelligence community, had discovered this vulnerability prior to last week, it would have been disclosed to the community responsible for OpenSSL," White House National Security Council Spokesperson Caitlin Hayden said in a statement.

NSA knew about Heartbleed, exploited it for two years

Both Google and Finnish company Codenomicon said on Monday that 'Heartbleed' had existed in OpenSSL for two years, which led to a Bloomberg News report saying that the National Security Agency (NSA) had again been caught spying on US citizens.

White House denies previous knowledge of 'Heartbleed' security breach

A third of OpenSSL servers are still thought to be vulnerable.

'it is safe to shop' plea over web bug

An attacker can take advantage of the vulnerability and can read the memory contents of the OpenSSL server," said the notice posted by theGerman Federal Office for Information Security.

US government says hackers trying to exploit Heartbleed bug

This validation demonstrates the compliance of the OpenSSL cryptographic algorithms with a reference implementation.

ATSEC ACHIEVES COMMON CRITERIA CERTIFICATION FOR RED HAT

Tokyo, Japan, Nov 8, 2006 - (JCN Newswire) - The OpenSSL Project, an international open source community, adopted "Camellia," a 128-bit block cipher(1) algorithm jointly developed in 2000 by Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation ('NTT') and Mitsubishi Electric Corporation ('Mitsubishi'), into its OpenSSL toolkit for use in the development of SSL/TLS(2) protocol.

The Open Source Community OpenSSL Project Adopts the Next Generation International Standard Cipher 'Camellia', Developed in Japan

The libraries covered include OpenSSL, B/Safe, the Java Cryptographic Library, and CAPI.