Google Fixes Cryptographic Key Security Issue in Go Programming Language

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google-fixes-cryptographicGoogle has published version 1.5.3 of the Go programming language to address a security issue (CVE-2015-8618) in the math/big package that leaked one of the RSA keys used in TLS-encrypted communications.

RSA is a cryptographic algorithm that encrypts data and generates two keys, one for encryption, one for decryption operations. RSA is used for TLS/SSL computations. According to the Google advisory

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