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Indian certification authority eMudhra’s private keys compromised – one of them was the number ‘4’

Massive clean-up job under way because this mess makes it possible to impersonate any website or service Tragically simple private keys used by a certification authority based in India have been compromised, meaning the 60-million-plus…

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Massive clean-up job under way because this mess makes it possible to impersonate any website or service Tragically simple private keys used by a certification authority based in India have been compromised, meaning the 60-million-plus certs it has issued can’t be trusted and necessitating a massive clean-up job.

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