Indian CA's private keys compromised – one of them was the number '4'
alwa
14 points
7 comments
October 21, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (4 comments)
alwa
Bugzilla bug in question: https://.mozilla.org/showbug.cgi?id=2083449
pwfisher
Test your browser and update your system's certificates: https://emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com/
unsupp0rted
Never attribute to malice what can be explained by ignorance? In this case I wonder if this was an intentional wide open doorway to fraud
dlcarrier
I thought CAs automatically filtered out really low keys. There's a great Suckerpinch video ( https://youtu.be/M1si1y5lvkk ) about trying to purposely make the least secure HTTPS page possible, and Tom initially tried to choose a laughably-low number as the key, but the CA automatically rejected it.