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Quick thoughts about the eMudhra incident

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In an analysis by Lex Neva's correspondent, eMudhra, an India-based public-key infrastructure company, found that eight of its global TLS intermediate certificate authorities used cryptographically weak keys, allowing attackers to reconstruct private keys and forge certificates.

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