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eMudhra: Free Certificates for Everyone

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In October 2026, security researcher Wayne used Google's open-source paranoid_crypto tool to find that eMudhra, a public certificate authority, had issued eight intermediate certificates with trivially weak private keys, each chosen from only 256 possibilities.

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