Protecting Firefox users following the compromise of eMudhra intermediate certificates
On Saturday, October 17, at 20:06 UTC, Mozilla received a report that private keys associated with eight eMudhra intermediate certificates had been compromised. These keys could allow attackers to issue ...
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Apparently they were using the private key “4”
The source code to their random number generator was leaked earlier today:
https://xkcd.com/221/
They really should have used a prime number. 7 would have been a lot safer for everyone.
The fools, that only stops East Asians.
Fun fact one of the private keys is 4 and all of them are <256
You know, I would have never guessed it was "4"; so, in a way, that's actually pretty secure 😉. /s
security through stupidity