alt Hacker NewsThat's INSANE
Like, that had to be malicious right? ssh-keygen won't generate a key like this, and neither will openssl or whatever Microsoft is doing behind their CA server.
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xienze • yesterday at 5:29 PM
The other keys were 56, 66, 115, 155, 156, 230, 237. I honestly think whoever did this thought the "384" in 384-bit meant they had to choose numbers between 0-384.
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alienbaby • yesterday at 4:53 PM
Getting any number as your key is as likely as getting any other number, I thought? 4 is as likely as 64257383994662784857722891857 etc ..?
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alias_neo • yesterday at 3:54 PM
Maybe it was just a mistake and they intended to generate a `--bitsize 4` thinking it was in kilobyte units.
shrug
I think they're just absolutely inept and should never be trusted with anything security related as an organisation if this is a mistake they could make.
It's 0x0000000000000000000....4, but no, just good ol' human failure (and a bunch of extra f-ups along the way)