Pls help, everyone keeps telling me to update all the things because someone worships 4 or something.
What is going on for the ppl who don’t know networking?
Basically, when choosing a private encryption key - normally a long string of random characters - in a crucial place for widespread Internet security, some knob just used “4”.
Pls help, everyone keeps telling me to update all the things because someone worships 4 or something.
What is going on for the ppl who don’t know networking?
Basically, when choosing a private encryption key - normally a long string of random characters - in a crucial place for widespread Internet security, some knob just used “4”.
https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/10/20/indian-certification-authority-emudhras-private-keys-compromised-one-of-them-was-the-number-4/5304312
What you say is extremely unlikely. No one decided to use 4.
Either the system they had for generating the key was broken, or they accidentally used a test key for a real system.
I think I reworded my post from “decided to use” to “used” just as you posted that correction, with which I agree.