Prof Stephen Serjeant

Prof Stephen Serjeant

stephenserjeant.bsky.social

Astronomy Prof at Open University. 26.2. #RejoinEU, £➡️€. Views not OU’s and often not even mine. He/him 🐘 https://mas.to/@stephenserjeant 🧵 https://www.threads.net/@prof.stephen.serjeant ORCID 0000-0002-0517-7943 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0517-7943

👤 Joined on 17 August 2023

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Don't trust the fearmongers: using "4" as your private key is totally fine, as long as it's a random "4". Besides, 4 is prime and therefore secure

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My private key is "5" - I am WAY more secure than some loser with a private key of "4."

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Pavel
21 October 2026 19:30

Patch notes: - improved security (incremented private key from '4' to '5')

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3cats
21 October 2026 19:30

wdym your private key was literally the number 4?????

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opossumcaviar
21 October 2026 19:05

Context: A certificate authority, an essential part of how your computer knows a response from website-dot-com is the real website-dot-com, was found to be using "4" as a private key. This should never happen and it should be a very big number instead. This is a very bad thing

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