4..
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It’s probably already cracked by NSA or something.
The answer to life, the universe and everything...
Someone must have used getRandomNumber().
hey now!
4 is just as random as 29833638292F9373638292926262141414331252526283994040218 is
For one value, yes…. But for 8 different keys having stupidly low numbers? They either had a seriously faulty RNG, or more likely were hand creating the keys.
And the only reason to make a key that short is if you were trying to give them to someone who shouldn't have them, and needed to avoid any sort of digital trail, even copy and paste... so you would obviously just memorize them.
Memorizing a bunch of 384 bit keys is basically impossible... But memorizing a couple dozen numbers? Child's play.
You underestimate the power of laziness and incompetence, I think
Considering keys like this are usually copied and pasted anywhere they might need to be manually entered... There is zero reason to make them small enough to be human-readable, unless that's your actual intended use.
"I need a 384-bit key... I have no idea how to generate one... oh, screw it... 4"
Anyone in a position where they are responsible for generating a root key for a certificate authority, 100% knows how to generate a key in their sleep.
The only explanation is that it was made easy intentionally, not lazily.
Lol. So random xd
"Now?" "Now," said Deep Thought. They both licked their dry lips. "Though I don't think," added Deep Thought. "that you're going to like it." "Doesn't matter!" said Phouchg. "We must know it! Now!" "Now?" inquired Deep Thought. "Yes! Now..." "All right," said the computer, and settled into silence again. The two men fidgeted. The tension was unbearable. "You're really not going to like it," observed Deep Thought.
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doesn't quite catch it
two finyallys!
Private Key Solved: nya
Does this mean no one tried a sequential brute force attack on these systems?
Probably not, until now.
A sequential brute force on a 384 bit key would take forever given how random they are. There's no reason to even try it. Well, there wasn't a reason to try it before.
Someone probably did. They probably didn’t share that.
Thankfully modern browsers use Certificate Transparency, and there's no indication that any compromised certs were actually used publicly.
However, there are many devices that use TLS which are not browsers, and those devices could in theory be selectively targeted with an evil cert without alerting the public CT servers.
It means that some people are trying that -- now.
That’s likely how they were found by the original reporter
whooosh
Huh, you responded to my message 3 hours after I deleted it. Not because whoosh, I'm well aware of your stupid meme, but because it wasn't a proper use of an RSA prime.
