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Document root cause of eMudhra intermediate compromise: trivially small private keys - #8
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…ll private keys Each of the eight compromised P-384 intermediate keys is a tiny scalar (4, 56, 66, 115, 155, 156, 230, 237), verified against the public keys in the incident's impacted-intermediates.json. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Follow-up to #6. The eight compromised eMudhra intermediates were not stolen. Each one's P-384 private key is a tiny integer:
Verified by computing
k·Gon P-384 for each value and comparing the result with the public keys in the incident'simpacted-intermediates.json. All eight match.This PR adds the root cause to
CHANGELOG-roots.mdandroots/eMudhra/README.md. It changes documentation only. The decision to disable the root stands.🤖 Generated with Claude Code