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Effective monday, 5/19/08, Helpdesk in 311 Soda Hall will be closed for the summer. 395 Cory Hall Helpdesk will remain open and hours will be 9:30am to 5pm – monday through friday. One can also call helpdesk at 2-7777 or send email to help@eecs.

All SSL and SSH keys generated on Debian-based systems
(Ubuntu, Kubuintu and so on) between September 2006 and May 13, 2008 may
be affected by a bug in the Debian project’s OpenSSL package. This
includes generated public/private ssh keypairs and SSL certificate requests.

http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1571
also states:
“all DSA keys ever used on affected Debian systems for
signing or authentication purposes should be considered compromised;
the Digital Signature Algorithm relies on a secret random value used
during signature generation.”

Non Debian-based systems can indirectly be affected if Debian-based systems’
weak keys were imported into them.

System administrators of Debian, Ubuntu and Kubuntu systems should take
appropriate actions now, Upgrade your OpenSSL software.
Cryptographic materials should be recreated.

References:
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1571
http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2008/msg00152.html
http://metasploit.com/users/hdm/tools/debian-openssl
http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2008-May/014902.html
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-612-1
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-137A.html

Starting now, all user changes to whitelists should be done via
https://bc3.eecs.berkeley.edu or https://bc4.eecs.berkeley.edu.

bc1.eecs.berkeley.edu and bc2.eecs.berkeley.edu will be retired shortly.