eMudhra to exit global SSL/TLS certificate business

altbdoor

There's a formal press release in here: https://emudhra.com/en/press-release/emudhra-to-exit-global-...

solatic

"will sharpen focus on... trust services other than SSL/TLS" Is there some reputation left to salvage here that I'm not aware of? Who would trust them ?

jerf

"You can't fire me, I quit!"

gamegod

This press release was brought to you by the number 4

ieie3366

Related: the absolutely brutal question battery the Chrome team publicly submitted to eMudhra https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2083449#c30

jesuswasjew

CA Forum, Apple, Google and Mozilla are to be blamed for just giving license to random no security background far away company.

seatac76

Terrible company, such evasive statements. Seems ripe for disruption. Surely they should be investigated by the local regulator.

notSavonarola

I have four (4) takes on the matter.

vlfig

There must be criminal matter here.

malfist

I'm still waiting to read their post mortem with their ~~5~~ 4 Whys

AdvitXSingh

yea sure, blame social media cause you are incompetent. nice

sambull

I think this opens bigger questions on who and how people get access to these capabilities. After that recent cold wallet physical supply chain take over, what sort of people are able to get certs for anything they need?

zulux

" My new passphrase is "eMahidra4444". Now I have four-factor authentication.

mrlonglong

Oh dear, never mind.

nickorlow

I guess they ran out of numbers?

shrubble

How much did they make over the years? Is it true that they issued 60 million SSL certificates (I read this but couldn't verify it)?

mschuster91

Let's be real - there was no way for them to recover their way out of that after this ridiculously bad screw-up.

altbdoor

Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50194909

rarisma

sixty million certs but couldn't count past 4.

luispa

-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY----- 4 -----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----