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Eight Bits of Trust; eMudhra's CA keys cracked in milliseconds (scotthelme.co.uk)
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One of eMudhra's certificate authority private keys is the number 4.

Not a number that starts with 4, or the number 4 followed by a few hundred random digits, just, 4...

xkcd#221 wasn't supposed to be an instruction manual 🤪

xkcd 221. comic consists of this C source code: int getRandomNumber() { return 4; // chosen by fair dice roll. // guaranteed to be random. }

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    [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago

    Hilarious. How could that have happened?

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