Does a Malicious Backdoor Compromise SSH?

A newly discovered backdoor found in the xz liblzma library of XZ Utils, the XZ format compression utilities included in most Linux distributions, targets the RSA implementation of OpenSSH.

For those outside of tech, that sentence was an unreadable jumble of acronyms. For those inside tech, a chill probably ran down their spine, as those technologies are everywhere. Anytime anyone buys something online, they’re going to be using SSH to create a secure channel to pass transaction information. Depending on how many distros are using that library, the consequence range from “bad” to “really, really bad.”