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john_strinlai • today at 1:06 PM • 4 replies • view on HN

new email from wayne, who is the original reporter:

"I've had more than a few emails asking on how this was discovered. The simple answer is: https://github.com/google/paranoid_crypto

Yeah, out of the box. CCADB was intended to be a quick corpus test before looking at subscriber certificates...

I've done a far more thorough check of all existing CCADB certificates, thankfully no more hits. Most of my time has been spent going over the basics that everyone assumed someone else had already done - a critical mistake to ever make near security.

So unless someone has significantly more computational resources or access to more cryptanalysis research the low-hanging fruit has been caught so far."

https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/g/dev-security-polic...


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TheJoeMan • today at 2:51 PM

I must say, if I was writing a password cracker, I probably would not think to actually start at "1".

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renhanxue • today at 1:10 PM

> https://github.com/google/paranoid_crypto

This repository was archived by the owner on Aug 19, 2026. It is now read-only.

I guess now that we've checked, nobody will ever make a mistake like this again so we don't need this anymore? :)

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Scott_Helme_ • today at 1:47 PM

I have to be honest, that hasn't stopped me from trying!