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Old 05-13-2008
Ubuntu: OpenSSL vulnerability
LinuxSecurity.com: A weakness has been discovered in the random number generator used by OpenSSL on Debian and Ubuntu systems. As a result of this weakness, certain encryption keys are much more common than they should be, such that an attacker could guess the key through a brute-force attack given minimal knowledge of the system. This particularly affects the use of encryption keys in OpenSSH, OpenVPN and SSL certificates.

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byobu-janitor

byobu-janitor(1)						       byobu							  byobu-janitor(1)

NAME

       byobu-janitor - script for cleaning and upgrading environment after upgrades

SYNOPSIS

       byobu-janitor

DESCRIPTION

       byobu-janitor  is script for cleaning environment after upgrades, it consists from several tasks where aim is to ensure that environment is
       ready for new version of byobu.

BUGS

       None found, yet.

SEE ALSO

       screen(1), byobu-config(1), byobu-export(1), byobu-status(1), byobu-status-detail(1)
       http://launchpad.net/byobu

AUTHOR

       This manpage was written by Jan Klepek <jan.klepek at gmail.com> and the utility was written by Dustin Kirkland	<kirkland@ubuntu.com>  for
       Ubuntu  systems	(but may be used by others).  Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the
       GNU General Public License, Version 3 published by the Free Software Foundation.

       The complete text of the GNU General Public License can	be  found  in  /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL  on  Debian/Ubuntu  systems,  or	in
       /usr/share/doc/fedora-release-*/GPL on Fedora systems, or on the web at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt.

byobu								  6 January 2011						  byobu-janitor(1)