How I used Heartbleed to steal a site’s private crypto key

http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/heartbleed-keys.jpg

By now everyone knows about the OpenSSL Heartbleed vulnerability: a missing bounds check in one of the most popular TLS implementations has made millions of Web servers (and more) leak all sorts of sensitive information from memory. This can leak login credentials, authentication cookies, and Web traffic to attackers. But could it be used to recover the site’s TLS private key? This would enable complete decryption of previously-recorded traffic if perfect forward secrecy was not negotiated at the time and otherwise Man-in-The-Middle attacks to all future TLS sessions.

Tags: 

Read more: How I used Heartbleed to steal a site’s private crypto key

Story added 28. April 2014, content source with full text you can find at link above.