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Soatok Dreamseeker • mastodon (AP)

They did the XKCD thing!

https://glauca.space/@q/117474051360413376


4 times the SECP384-R1 base point is (0x138251cd52ac9298c1c8aad977321deb97e709bd0b4ca0aca55dc8ad51dcfc9d1589a1597e3a5120e1efd631c63e1835, 0xcacae29869a62e1631e8a28181ab56616dc45d918abc09f3ab0e63cf792aa4dced7387be37bba569549f1c02b270ed67)

https://repository.emsign.com/certs/EMOVTLSCAG3C.crt

for the non-cryptographers at the back of the room: the private key is 4, just the number 4, nothing more

Certificate:<br>    Data:<br>        Version: 3 (0x2)<br>        Issuer: C=IN, O=eMudhra Technologies Limited, CN=emSign Root TLS CA - G3<br>        Subject: C=US, O=eMudhra Inc, CN=EM OV TLS CA - G3C<br>        Subject Public Key Info:<br>            Public Key Algorithm: id-ecPublicKey<br>                Public-Key: (384 bit)<br>                pub:<br>04:13:82:51:cd:52:ac:92:98:c1:c8:aa:d9:77:32:<br>1d:eb:97:e7:09:bd:0b:4c:a0:ac:a5:5d:c8:ad:51:<br>dc:fc:9d:15:89:a1:59:7e:3a:51:20:e1:ef:d6:31:<br>c6:3e:18:35:ca:ca:e2:98:69:a6:2e:16:31:e8:a2:<br>81:81:ab:56:61:6d:c4:5d:91:8a:bc:09:f3:ab:0e:<br>63:cf:79:2a:a4:dc:ed:73:87:be:37:bb:a5:69:54:<br>9f:1c:02:b2:70:ed:67<br>                ASN1 OID: secp384r1<br>                NIST CURVE: P-384<br>

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Pippin friendica
And there I was thinking key generators had a bunch of tests to make sure the random numbers they used didn't happen to be too obvious. Maybe they felt those ones were cramping their style. 🤷