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deadbabe • today at 1:10 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

Can someone explain the significance here, a lot has happened in 24 hours.


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Gigachad • today at 1:13 AM

An Indian Certificate Authority eMudhra was found to have a private key that’s literally the number 4. So using that you can sign valid https certs for anything that isn’t checking the revoked list.

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jolmg • today at 1:26 AM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMudhra#2026_intermediate_cert...

> On October 17, 2026, browser root programs received a report that the private keys of eight eMudhra intermediate certificates had been compromised. The private keys were 4, 56, 66, 115, 155, 156, 230, and 237. A P-384 elliptic-curve private key normally has about 384 bits of entropy, but these keys had between 3 and 8 bits.