A Certificate Authority's Private Keys Were the Numbers 4, 56 and 66
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Discussion of the blog article A Certificate Authority's Private Keys Were the Numbers 4, 56 and 66.
Eight eMudhra intermediate CA keys turned out to be recoverable from their own public certificates. Not stolen — computable, because the key generation produced almost no entropy. A researcher pulled all eight in under a second and signed a message with each one to prove it.
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