CVE-2024-31497 PuTTY < v0.81

[Duncan Mac Leod]

In PuTTY 0.68 through 0.80 before 0.81, biased ECDSA nonce generation allows an attacker to recover a user's NIST P-521 secret key via a quick attack in approximately 60 signatures.

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-31497

[CaptainBlood]

I've just keyworded in my generic /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords as a safety measure.

Thks 4 ur attention, interest & support.
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USE="-* ..." in /etc/portage/make.conf here.
LT: "I've been doing a passable imitation of the Fontana di Trevi, except my medium is mucus. Sooo much mucus. "

[Hu]

This is reported as <net-misc/putty-0.81: unsafe key generation.