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Re:The surprising persistence of RSA keys in SSH by hyper_reality on Friday May 29, 2020 @08:05PM (#23357123)
Check out the paper "Ron was wrong, Whit is right" for a survey of keys found on the web and the surprising number of RSA keys that have weaknesses.
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Re:The surprising persistence of RSA keys in SSH by throw0101a on Friday May 29, 2020 @08:30PM (#23357272)
Discussion of said paper (2012):

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3591429

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Re:The surprising persistence of RSA keys in SSH by phkahler on Friday May 29, 2020 @08:56PM (#23357435)
Why do RSA keys have weaknesses? Wasn't the company found to be compromised and selling products that make weak keys or something like that?
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Re:The surprising persistence of RSA keys in SSH by rcxdude on Saturday May 30, 2020 @05:22AM (#23359750)
completely different. RSA group != RSA the algorithm (though they were created by the same people initially).
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Re:The surprising persistence of RSA keys in SSH by phkahler on Saturday May 30, 2020 @10:08AM (#23361275)
I may have been thinking of this:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/...

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