Researcher factors 1990s Certificate Authority RSA keys, exposing legacy trust risks
ahlCVA · hn · 2026-09-08
An HN user published a writeup on factoring the RSA keys of a 1990s Certificate Authority. The post walks through the process and highlights how short keys from that era can now be broken by individuals, posing trust-chain risks for systems still relying on legacy roots.
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