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TL;DR

Certificate authority (eMudhra) generated eight of its intermediate signing keys so badly that anyone can recover the private keys from the public certificates. That means anyone can mint a "valid" HTTPS certificate for any site, such as your bank, GitHub, or PyPI, and impersonate it.

Much better explanation here

https://cycle.io/blog/2026-intermediate-ca-compromise

This is the Go version of the initial HN post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50166579

parent stikit 9 days ago

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