> From: David Lang [mailto:da...@lang.hm]
> 
> This is where I disagree. With heartbleed, any single site could be
> compromised
> just as easily, the only difference is that the password they got would not 
> get
> them into any other site.

You are still missing the point.  Suppose you're a server that I login to.  
Suppose you are compromised by heartbleed.  Since the most I ever sent you was 
my public key, there is absolutely no information compromised that would allow 
the attacker to impersonate me *anywhere* including the compromised server.

You said "the password they got would not get them into any other site."  The 
things that are wrong with this statement are:  1: They didn't get any password 
and 2: What they did get (a public key) is insufficient to get them in even at 
the compromised site.  And definitely not anywhere else.
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