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Eight Bits of Trust; eMudhra's CA keys cracked in milliseconds

https://scotthelme.co.uk/eight-bits-of-trust-emudhras-ca-keys-cracked-in-milliseconds/
34•hkc•54m ago

Comments

positive-spite•23m ago
That's some criminal negligence right there.

8 bits is crazytalk!

g-b-r•10m ago
There absolutely need to be criminal, personal consequences for something like this
joshuat•10m ago
“4”

hey chatgbg what is a “private key”

bombcar•13m ago
Of COURSE it's easy to crack, 4 isn't even prime!
joshuat•9m ago
It’s really impressive no one caught their three previous private key values
WalterGR•10m ago
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50166579

“eMudhra intermediate CA compromise” | 947 points | 19 hours ago | 408 comments

Qision•7m ago
It feels like they chose the private keys by hand.
naabozaurus•4m ago
hey, at least it was easy to remember...
jlmorton•4m ago
In retrospect, having 100 trusted certificate authorities might have been excessive.

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Eight Bits of Trust; eMudhra's CA keys cracked in milliseconds

https://scotthelme.co.uk/eight-bits-of-trust-emudhras-ca-keys-cracked-in-milliseconds/
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