eMudhra certificates revealed private keys with trivial values
Scott Helme’s report examines a failure in eMudhra’s certificate authority infrastructure: private keys corresponding to public certificates had tiny values such as 4, 56, and 115.
R/PROGRAMMING (TOP) — The researcher says he recovered them in under a second. The article records notifications sent to eMudhra, Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla on 17 October.
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