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  • Sophie Schmiegsophieschmieg@infosec.exchange
    Oct 21, 2026, 2:55 PM

    This press release is gold:

    emudhra.com/en/press-release/e

    "Last weekend, an independent researcher found that the weak keys could be reverse-engineered possibly with AI-assisted techniques."

    Your private key was the number 4. Your fucking private key, which is supposed to be a 115 digit number, was the fucking number 4. As in, the fourth key a very naive first analysis would try. But sure scary scary AI did it.

    I independently recovered the private key, without any AI assistance, on Monday evening. Not because I was involved in the incident, just because I was curious and had a little bit of free time on my hand.

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  • LukefromDCLukefromDC@kolektiva.social
    Oct 21, 2026, 5:46 PM

    @lcamtuf @sophieschmieg If someone brute-forcing a key does not know the intended length they will first try the shortest keys as these can be done very quickly.

    If they do know the keylengh but have reason to believe (as we all do now) that small numbers might be padded with leading zeros, that is also trivial to check as only one more step per try (add the leading zeroes) is needed

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  • LukefromDCLukefromDC@kolektiva.social
    Oct 21, 2026, 5:43 PM

    @sophieschmieg I just hope ICE is this careless with computers. We know Flock is, given that hardcoded login keys can be recovered from liberated Flock cameras and one such key is circulating online and impossible to revoke without replacing every camera.

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  • James Endicotto76923@kitty.social
    Oct 21, 2026, 7:01 PM

    @sophieschmieg@infosec.exchange

    Copy-pasting the binary representation of 4 with 384 bits provides some important context of how absurd this error is.

    0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000100

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