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posted by cmn32480 on Wednesday November 11 2015, @06:19AM   Printer-friendly
from the good-news-for-the-afflicted dept.

Administrators of Web servers that were infected with a recently released ransomware program for Linux are in luck: There's now a free tool that can decrypt their files.

The tool was created by malware researchers from antivirus firm Bitdefender, who found a major flaw in how the Linux.Encoder.1 ransomware uses encryption.

The [ransomware] program makes files unreadable by using the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), which uses the same key for both the encryption and decryption operations. The AES key is then encrypted too by using RSA, an asymmetric encryption algorithm.


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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by jbWolf on Wednesday November 11 2015, @02:20PM

    by jbWolf (2774) <jbNO@SPAMjb-wolf.com> on Wednesday November 11 2015, @02:20PM (#261724) Homepage

    Thanks! I was wondering how to fix my problem! :P

    Now that I've wasted everyone's time with my previous paragraph, I'll leave something more serious here: This [2uo.de] is an interesting argument to use /dev/urandom for cryptography. I don't know anything in depth about the subject matter, but I thought it was an interesting read / skim and thought it might be a worthy discussion on Soylent News.

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