bigendian.bsky.social
hey its the guy from twitter who keeps coming up with increasingly worse genders. i cant be bothered to center the lil octopus sry. special interests are pharmacology and defending weird pornography. ancom tendencies. he or she. 34. Bad Checksum @ Balmung
👤 Joined on 19 July 2023
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@bigendian.bsky.socialtruly 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”
Show Postwhat if they did randomly generate the keys and just got really unlucky?
Show PostTHIS IS NOT A DRILL. If you package/distribute/maintain root stores or chain verifiers, act immediately. If you know how to remove trust in a root, consider doing it now. Otherwise, prepare to update systems as patches/mitigations come. Go users, update to Go 1.27.3 or Go 1.26.10.
Show Postit's the product of two primes! i don't see the issue.
Show PostContext: 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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