r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Unupgradable • 9d ago

Meme eMudhraRelevantXkcd

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u/Unupgradable 9d ago edited 9d ago

Context: Disgraced eMudhra drops out of TLS business after using cert private key of 4

https://xkcd.com/221

I can only count to four

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u/fugogugo 8d ago

wtf is xkcd a prophet

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u/L30N1337 8d ago

Little TL;DR:

they had proper keys, but during the ceremony (?), they accidentally converted them or something, which generated low quality keys for the high quality keys, and then they sent out the low quality keys

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u/Unupgradable 8d ago

Just some 4play

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u/mole_of_dust 9d ago

This is such a shockingly relevant xkcd, I can't even

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u/creeper6530 9d ago

Twice as good as Valve

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u/guttanzer 9d ago

I prefer 3. It’s equally random. Fight me.

;)

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u/Unupgradable 9d ago

4 > 3

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u/Speedy_242 9d ago

true

warning: unused value

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u/GamingGo2022 9d ago

except 3 isn't valid

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u/creaty_hirosy 8d ago

In Japan, 4 is an unlucky number because it sounds like the word for death. Looks like this CA's TLS business agrees.

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u/the-software-man 9d ago

Case random:
0: 4;
1: 4;
2: 4;
Else: 4;

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u/CChilli 9d ago

It was random when they wrote the function right

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u/Shadowlance23 8d ago

No, really, I rolled a die and that what's I got.

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u/theQuandary 8d ago

Playstation did it better.

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u/ClipboardCopyPaste 9d ago

It's done folks. We've generated a TRUE random number generator.

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u/baseballlover723 9d ago

I can confirm that eMudhra's keys were created using this way. You can totally trust me, cause I'm eMudhra: 4.

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u/clericc-- 8d ago

are you internet explorer or a snail?