Comment on What is behind the current Lemmy meme about 4 being a private key?

swordgeek@lemmy.ca ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

There are two parts to this answer.

First, as many have pointed out, eMudhra as a trusted certificate authority has issued eight high-level certificates with a key length of onle 3-8 bits, when they should be 384 bits long. And yes, the smallest key was ‘4’.

But the other point is tha xkcd predicted using 4 as a random number, decades ago. It was supposed to be a joke.

xkcd.com/221/

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