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The Internet goes on high alert after discovery of 8 compromised TLS certs

lemmy.world
The Internet goes on high alert after discovery of 8 compromised TLS certs
> Astonishingly, the private keys were 4, 56, 66, 115, 155, 156, 230, 237. > exploiting compromised certificates requires an active adversary-in-the-middle attack, meaning the attacker must act as a proxy between two TLS parties and receive encrypted traffic, decrypt it, reencrypt it, and send it to the other party. Such capabilities, in some cases, are usually limited to only the most well-resourced attackers. People with control of a local network—at a coffee shop, university, or other organization—face much less of a challenge. https://emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com/ [https://emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com/] Xkcd 221: int getRandomNumber() { return 4; // chosen by fair dice roll. guaranteed to be random. } [https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/random_number.png]

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