alt Hacker NewsThe gall to write that after using the integer 4 as a private key.
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It was selected with a fair dice, guaranteed to be random! :)
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The gall to write that after using the integer 4 as a private key.
It was selected with a fair dice, guaranteed to be random! :)
It's not quite as egregious as someone purposely choosing the key. According to the write up on the Mozilla bugtracker there was a bug in the script used for there key generation ceremony which caused the bad certificates to be generated. Obviously completely unacceptable for a CA, but makes more sense than someone plucking 4 out of the air while generating a root cert.