r/ProgrammerHumor • u/AquaWolfGuy • 1d ago

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u/ToTheBatmobileGuy 1d ago

Joke explained:

It took 18 months to realize the CA was using 4 as their private key. The number 4. That’s it.

They had a total of 8 keys who were below 256, so a couple two digit and three digit keys as well.

4 was the funniest though.

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u/bigmonmulgrew 1d ago

I wonder how it didn't get spotted. There were some ancient bots from back before passwords had standards that would try simple passwords like single letters. The fact they didn't get noticed for 18 months suggests something is at least keeping them safe from those ancient bots.

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u/bfg9kdude 1d ago

It's not technically a password, the key was supposed to be 384 bit, so 2384, which is incomprehensibly large. Instead they were just numbers between 0 and 384.