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eMudhra quits global SSL/TLS certificate business after key compromise

eMudhra is exiting the global SSL/TLS certificate market after private keys behind eight of its intermediate certificate authorities were compromised. The company will offer affected customers free Sectigo-issued replacement certificates and will keep revocation and status services running until all its certificates have expired or been replaced. eMudhra cited rising data sovereignty and compliance costs as additional factors in leaving the business.

Researcher factors 512-bit RSA keys from 1990s Netscape root certificate authority

A security researcher extracted decades-old root certificates bundled with early Netscape and Internet Explorer browser installers from archive.org, using an LLM to catalog them. Among the finds was a 512-bit RSA certificate authority key shipped in Netscape 4.51 in 1999, trusted for both SSL and S/MIME, which the researcher then successfully factored using modern computing power.