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Home : April 14 2014 Computer News : Akamai admits its OpenSSL patch was faulty, reissues keys

Akamai admits its OpenSSL patch was faulty, reissues keys

April 14, 2014

Akamai Technologies, whose network handles up to 30 percent of all Internet traffic, said Sunday a researcher found a fault in custom code that the company thought shielded most of its customers from the Heartbleed bug.As a result, Akamai is now reissuing all SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) certificates and security keys used to create encrypted connections between its customer’s websites and visitors to those sites.“In short, we had a bug,” wrote Andy Ellis, Akamai’s CTO, in a blog post.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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