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[โ€“] partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[โ€“] Ephera@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago

One of the global certificate authorities used a private key which's value was 4. As in, that is the entire private key in its full length.

It's part of this incident, which you've probably heard of: https://emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com/