Eight Bits of Trust; eMudhra's CA keys cracked in milliseconds
One of eMudhra's certificate authority private keys is the number 4. Not a number that starts with 4, or the number 4 followed by a few hundred random digits, just, 4... Another one is 56, and another is 115. I know, because I recovered all of them from their
The Accidental History of the @ Symbol
Once a rarely used key on the typewriter, the graceful character has become the very symbol of modern electronic communication
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Something that struck me reading about the history of the Apple I computer was the fairly simple “ASCII bus” that it used for input and output. As I understand it a hobbyist back in the day could get an ASCII keyboard that quite literally presented as an interface a header giving 7-bits of ASCII and an additional strobe pin that indicated that a key had been pressed. Press the “A” key on the keyboard and the 7-bits representing the letter “A” in ASCII would be set high/low on 7 output pins and the strobe pin would momentarily go high. Needless to say, the Apple I was wired up in such a way that when the strobe pin pulsed it would immediately fetch the 7-bits of ASCII from the keyboard.
Pebble Index 01
A smart ring that records voice notes at the press of a button and transcribes them to your phone. External memory for your brain.
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🖧 6am and on. Still in sorting procedures. Wrestling spellcheckers and the lack of corrections, that dreaded key bouncing again. A joyful experience particularly while entering passwords. Remote system access still refused and things remain slightly rough.
Michael Tsai - Blog - Alan Kay on the iPhone
If people could understand what computing was about, the iPhone would not be a bad thing. But because people don’t understand what computing is about, they think they have it in the iPhone, and that illusion is as bad as the illusion that Guitar Hero is the same as a real guitar. That’s the simple long and the short of it.
Are elliptic curve keys corresponding to small private keys bad keys? · Issue #38 · badkeys/badkeys
An elliptic curve private key is usually1 a number between 1 and the curve's order minus one. The corresponding public key is the private key times the group's generator. In particular, if ...
A mystery with memory leaks and a magic number
What’s up with this 'Apple Reference Image' rumor?
A new feature possibly coming in iOS 27 can make it possible to prove an iPhone photo is real, but it's probably not for everyday people.
Shift Happens: A book about keyboards
Shift Happens tells the story of keyboards like no book ever before, covering 150 years from the early typewriters to the pixellated keyboards in our pockets.
She Came Out of the Bathroom Naked, Employee Says
Bank details, sex and naked people who seem unaware they are being recorded. Behind Meta’s new smart glasses lies a hidden workforce, uneasy about peering into the most intimate parts of other people’s lives.
This is an absolutely astounding press release from eMudhra. No apology, a suggestion that the researcher who found their private keys must have used AI, and an attempt to shift blame to auditors... wow. emudhra.com/en/press-release/emudhra-stat…
eMudhra Statement on distrust of select Global TLS Intermediate and one Root CA
emudhra.comfor the non technical folks: imagine there was a password that if you guess it, you can impersonate *any website on the internet* now imagine the password is literally the number 4
The Internet goes on high alert after discovery of 8 compromised TLS certs
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