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Looks like this is who discovered that the #eMudhra TLS generation seeds were indeed a single byte long, and one of them was the infamous number 4 from the #xkcd scenario. What sort of misconfiguration led to this?!

ira grachevskaya from the hit vn Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It

2026-10-20 16:38:18

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omfg they're ALL FUCKING <255

4 EM OV TLS CA - G3C OV TLS
56 EM EV TLS CA - G3C EV TLS
66 EM OV CS CA - G3B Code signing
115 EM EV TLS CA - G3B EV TLS
155 EM OV TLS CA - G3B OV TLS
156 EM DV TLS CA - G3B DV TLS
230 EM DV TLS CA - G3C DV TLS
237 EM OV CS CA - G3C Code signing


#xkcd #emudhra
friendica (DFRN) - Link to source

Turns out that Randall Munroe predicted this exact scenario, down to the number, thirteen years ago. There's a #xkcd for everything indeed. xkcd.com/221/ #eMudhra

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Carlos Solís

2026-10-20 18:25:11

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Rumor has it that #eMudhra 's password to their encryption keys was A SINGLE DIGIT LONG. Again, you had ONE JOB-

♲ @csolisr@hub.azkware.net:

To the #eMudhra company, you had ONE JOB
Screenshot of eMudhra's website. Text: "eMudhra was started in 2008 with a mission to accelerate the world's transition to a secure integrated digital society with a foundation built on digital identity and trust. Employees, customers and vendors increasingly demand real time and secure interactions, be it for onboarding, availing a loan, signing a contract or making payments online." Picture: stock photograph of an office lady typing on a computer.



#xkcd #emudhra

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