That's some criminal negligence right there.

8 bits is crazytalk!

Of COURSE it's easy to crack, 4 isn't even prime!

Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50166579

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

It feels like they chose the private keys by hand.

hey, at least it was easy to remember...

In retrospect, having 100 trusted certificate authorities might have been excessive.

eMudhra explanation : https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2083449#c11

Kind of hard to understand how a bug would have generated a second pair of key so bad, and how would human would have ended up using them. Never attribute to malice what can be attributed to stupidity, but sometimes you wonder.

Could HN start feeding submissions through Pangram so us human readers don't have to suffer with reading the nauseating AI-prose?

This is not a good write-up. Yesterday's discussion did contain better data, less self-Promotion and actually asked why it happened, instead of just saying "number small".

I will say, there’s something almost reassuring when something goes boom that badly and the story is really silly. It’s like [horrific human-caused disaster] but it’s because of a Three Stooges episode.

I wouldn't be surprised if we learn in the near future, that this was deliberate.