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Heartbleed contains a compact, purpose-built implementation for detecting the infamous Heartbleed vulnerability in OpenSSL’s TLS heartbeat extension (CVE-2014-0160). It focuses on demonstrating and testing the flaw rather than being a general-purpose security toolkit, which makes the code approachable for learning and auditing. The project illustrates how a malformed heartbeat request could coax vulnerable servers into leaking memory contents, including potentially sensitive data. Because...