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Re:Eight Bits of Trust; eMudhra's CA keys cracked in millise... by eatkd on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @11:24AM (#50182600)
They had multiple keys and 7 of the keys were numbers less than 256.
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Re:Eight Bits of Trust; eMudhra's CA keys cracked in millise... by nomel on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @12:18PM (#50183476)
Yes, and that is what's statistically impossible. They said one cert.

> In this case one cert gets defeated and you go the odds of that number being that low are 2^-384.

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