eMudhra exits global SSL/TLS business after 8 intermediate CA private keys found trivially guessable; Chrome and Firefox distrust ECC root
Indian certificate authority eMudhra will withdraw from its global SSL/TLS certificate business, its board decided on Thursday, five days after a researcher reported recovering the private keys of eight of its intermediate CA certificates. Six of the eight were TLS intermediates. Mozilla decided on October 20 to distrust the root above th…