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No more security fixes for older OpenSSL branches

December 4, 2015   Security News

Support for the 0.9.8 and 1.0.0 branches of OpenSSL will end on Dec. 31

Digital key Credit: IDGNS
The OpenSSL Software Foundation has released new patches for the popular open-source cryptographic library, but for two of its older branches they will likely be the last security updates.

This could spell trouble for some enterprise applications that bundle the 0.9.8 or 1.0.0 versions of OpenSSL and for older systems — embedded devices in particular — where updates are rare.

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