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Re: Fedora confirms: Our servers were breached


From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:10:55 -0400

On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:51:02 EDT, Larry Seltzer said:

...based on our efforts, we have high confidence
that the intruder was not able to capture the passphrase used to secure
the Fedora package signing key.
         ^^^^^^
number of OpenSSH packages relating only to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 
(i386 and x86_64 architectures only) and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
                                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Is there a subtle distinction I'm missing here?

Yes, the fact that Fedora isn't RHEL.

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