truly a wild time to be alive when the cryptography world is split between those worried about quantum computers and those whose private key is “4”
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This is the shit you fire people for, whole teams, and their management chain. Byeeeee.
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@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io Jeez it's a bizarre one. Just how the hell that can it ever happen. How can a serious company not have governance over something so critical. Was is sabotage? etc.
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@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io @darryl_ramm@hachyderm.io
The company should be permanently removed from any CA stores IMO.
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@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io Coincidentally I picked today to wear the "RIP Diffie–Hellman" shirt @heretohinder@mastodon.sdf.org designed. It's definitely "broken" today!!
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@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io I’m just imagining someone to finally build a quantum computer to crack a root CA certificate, and finally, after decades of cutting-edge science and billions of dollars in investment, the screen just shows “Private Key Solved: 4”
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This was the post that made the shitposts I'd been scrolling by make sense. Thank you. 🙏
@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io @MOULE@mastodon.moule.world
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So impressively insane!
“A normal size for a NIST P-384 elliptic curve cryptography private key contains roughly 384 bits of entropy, a size allowing almost 2384, or a number with 116 digits, different possibilities. The private key sizes of the compromised keys ranged from 3 to 8 bits. Astonishingly, the private keys were 4, 56, 66, 115, 155, 156, 230, 237.”
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@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io
To be fair, if you asked me to guess your private key, I would be very unlikely to guess '4' …
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@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io Maybe a dumb question, but uh... should we be trying small numbers for all of the other certs? 👀
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I guess we can stop building all those datacenters now. The number was 4.
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I heard rumor about this earlier today and dismissed it as a funny joke.
Still funny, but now also a horror story.
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@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io Douglas Adams knew this, but somehow it got transcribed wrong when he read the line:
"The answer to life, the universe, and everything is four, too."
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@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io Hold up - I thought that was an exaggerated joke.
But...but I guess it was determined by dice roll, guaranteed to be random?
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@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io the spectre flaw, is promising a lot more holes than what everyone is prepared for.
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@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io
TIRED: 6, 7
WIRED: 4, 56, 66, 115, 155, 156, 230, 237
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@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io
Why does the headline sound like a push to put everything under corporate and state control? 🤔
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@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io
it's ok to both be worried about small nuclear reactors but also worry about someone putting sugar into the gas on your internal combustion engine...