The compromised eMudhra keys were defective at a level that’s challenging the imagination of many of the engineers studying the incident. A normal size for a NIST P-384 elliptic curve cryptography private key contains roughly 384 bits of entropy, a size allowing almost 2384, or a number with 116 digits, different possibilities. The private key sizes of the compromised keys ranged from 3 to 8 bits. Astonishingly, the private keys were 4, 56, 66, 115, 155, 156, 230, 237.

  • LordCrom@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    Remember kiddies, if you don’t have an update, you can always manually remove the certs from your local trust store.

    I imagine old java keystores or legacy browsers that have self co tai end keystores would be targets for manual fixes.