SSL Key Generation Weaknesses

Published

2012-03-08 00:00

Collected

2026-07-08 08:51

---
id: 4294
title: "SSL Key Generation Weaknesses"
source_domain: bishopfox.com
source_url: "https://bishopfox.com/blog/ssl-key-generation-weaknesses"
published_at: "2012-03-08T00:00:00Z"
tags: ["cryptography", "ssl", "certificates", "rsa", "key-generation", "randomness"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/4294"
lang: en
---

# SSL Key Generation Weaknesses

## Summary

Carl Livitt distills 'Ron was wrong, Whit is right': weak randomness left many RSA keys sharing prime factors, letting researchers derive secrets of a quarter-million SSL certificates.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** bishopfox.com
- **Published:** 2012-03-08T00:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://bishopfox.com/blog/ssl-key-generation-weaknesses
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/4294