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TheJoeMan • today at 3:17 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

I just explained what it actually is. I said "you know how you go to a website HTTPS and it's secure? Well Apple chose a couple of trusted parties that your phone inherently trusts, and those people approve a few thousand intermediate companies who do the day-to-day certificate work for end websites. One of those intermediates, rather than choosing a 200-digit random number, chose 4, no not four-digits, the number 4". And then we could laugh at some of the memes.


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albert_e • today at 3:28 PM

Our 200 digit random number was 199 zeroes followed by a 4

- emudhra lawyer maybe (:

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