eMudhra has exited the global SSL/TLS business, blaming social media amplification for the fallout rather than incompetence.

This brings a huge loss of 8 random numbers to the CA community, following a cryptographic failure where eight intermediate certificate authority keys were generated with zero entropy, making them easily guessable single digits.

eMudhra is a prominent Indian digital identity and security company. It acts as a certified authority that issues digital signatures and secure eSign services used for verifying electronic tax filings and business documents.