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xlayn • today at 2:45 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

the "security" in those certificates where so trivial, that almost looks like on purpose as backdoor...

which brings me to my next question, what if you rerun the same process for all the certificates in the "approved" stores, give them 1 min per certificate.. just to see how many other CAs are being "friendly" to parties that could take benefit of that...

update... I'm talking out of ignorance here... but assuming cli open source tools, should they prevent you creating certificates with weak settings unless --emudhra-level-security is passed?

also, what amount of time is needed in say a "civilian" gpu with claude to vibe code something that can test a certificate so say 80 bits.. or whatever is the level where yes, you cannot find the values to generate the certificate with a cpu... but you can with a gpu in say 1 day? say it's 80 bits... how many CA stores are there? how much does it cost to rent gpus to run in parallel to test 1 day of civilian gpu to check each certificate if you use one of these very expensive ones?


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Hobadee • today at 3:01 AM

Why would you need to insert a "backdoor" in a cert in the form of a crappy key, when you could just use a real key and provide it to whatever shady organization requested the backdoor in the first place?

Hobadee • today at 3:05 AM

> what amount of time is needed in say a "civilian" gpu

Per AI, 10²¹ years

Alternatively I would presume you could do it in 1 year with 10²¹ GPUs.