RC RANDOM CHAOS

certificate-authority

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I factored a root CA
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I factored a root CA

Factoring a 1990s Certificate Authority's public key recovered its private signing key, showing that confidentiality resting on computational cost is not a control.

Your CA just picked sides
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Your CA just picked sides

Let's Encrypt restricts certificate issuance in US sanctioned territories. The CA is now conditional. Operator response and dependency inventory required.