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[–] 6 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I'm dumb so this is probably more than half wrong, but they discovered a trusted certificate certifier in the middle east publishing dangerously unsafe passkeys. One of which was attached to a sight titled "We've got a problem Dave." Or something with a passkey of 4. Which means for an unknown time most Internet security was bypassed without our knowledge. As far as I'm aware there isn't evidence of someone successfully using the exploit but it's so dangerous that a small chunk of the Internet was completely locked down and things like Linux and many home electronics will be hit more than most.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (2 children)

    Uhm, yeah more than half wrong… An indian certificate authority had produced a set of faulty certificates with private keys between three and eight bits long, when the standard is 384 bits. There is no malicious reason to do this, it was likely incompetence. The effect is that these certificates are trivially easy to reverse-engineer, meaning a bad actor could use them to sign certificates for any web domain, defeating the protection TLS provides against man-in-the-middle attacks. The certificates have already been marked as un-trustworthy on all major web browsers and operating systems, the risk lies with devices that do not get regular updates.

    Edit: additionally, we know exactly when these faulty certificates were made and thus we also know for how long they have been exploitable

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    No malicious reason to do this he says, while Modi's coalition or at least the money behind it was known for having backdoor access to all their enemies somehow

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