The compromised eMudhra keys were defective at a level that’s challenging the imagination of many of the engineers studying the incident. A normal size for a NIST P-384 elliptic curve cryptography private key contains roughly 384 bits of entropy, a size allowing almost 2384, or a number with 116 digits, different possibilities. The private key sizes of the compromised keys ranged from 3 to 8 bits. Astonishingly, the private keys were 4, 56, 66, 115, 155, 156, 230, 237.

  • cron@feddit.orgOP
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    Anybody else just got troubles with this? At work, we’re just finding out if the certs were trusted and where exactly.

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      My colleague was laughing his head off all morning. Never a good sign when we start laughing a lot, in our office :,D