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When your phone has a menu that NO user in the UNIVERSE would ever have any reason to touch but then you get to 🥵 (piefed.cdn.blahaj.zone)
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[–] 4 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I don't understand what change I am looking at. Can someone ELI5?

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  • [–] 10 points 1 week ago* (1 child)

    These certificate companies are responsible for keeping internet traffic encrypted.

    They use a private key which you can imagine as a combination number lock of 116 digits.

    This specific company seemed to only be generating numbers that fell in the range of 0 to 256, and at the time of the breach the smallest one was 4.

    I want you to imagine your data being secured with a lock using a numpad of 116 digits. Now imagine the passcode turned out to be 115 zeros and then 4.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
    1. certificates encrypt web traffic
    2. companies exist to create world trusted certs
    3. these certs are signed by their private key with a random hash generated that's globally unique
    4. is not random enough

    edit: I love that there's only 4 upvotes on this. 🤣

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