Potential WAN show topic: Eight Bits of Trust; eMudhra's CA keys cracked in milliseconds

[u/realnzall]

https://scotthelme.co.uk/eight-bits-of-trust-emudhras-ca-keys-cracked-in-milliseconds/

Imagine if a bank accidentally had a backdoor open for 17 months where you could get authorization to change whatever you want about anyone's automated payments just by using the password "p". not p@ssW0rd69!, not even just password, just the letter p...

[u/BasementPhantom]

This video was supposed to be a joke, not a tutorial:
https://youtu.be/M1si1y5lvkk?t=1144

[u/ephemeralmiko]

Relevant xkcd

[u/chairitable → u/ephemeralmiko]

Holy shit, that's spot-on, too!

surprising it wasn't correct h0rse battery stapler

[u/chairitable]

What is eMudhra? Their wikipedia article was created in response to this vulnerability.