Compromised TLS Certificates
The Indian CA eMudhra Limited has eight TLS certificates with laughably weak private keys : 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 2 384 , or a number with 116 digits, different…
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