If this is just a meme website, just... take it back down? People are dumb, they are going to fill in real keys, and you knew this before you clicked "deploy".
Is anybody using this private key?
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#32My private key came from Debian, they patched the issues reported by Valgrind and now OpenSSL is more secure than ever.
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#33Do not give out your private keys anywhere except where they're needed. They are meant to be private for a reason. If this service was serious, it'd instead rely on fingerprints (sha256/sha512) and not the key itself.
"Never unless necessary" is unhelpful for anything
Yeah reminds me of the time a real UK bank employee insisted that I should give him an SMS onetime code, even telling me to ignore the part of the message that I should never give the code to anyone else, not even a bank employee. I verified by other means that both he and the transaction were genuine but absolutely refused to give him that code no matter how he tried to spin it, and solved the issue a different way. Whatever manager created that ad hoc process needs to get fired.
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#34"256 bits AES Encryption" should really have a "Military Grade" stamp on it. Perhaps with a metal background and some rivets or whatever for emphasis.
I guess it's to be expected, but the IPv6 Ready is bogus, too
; > DiG 9.10.6 > AAAA isanybodyusingthisprivatekey.com.
;isanybodyusingthisprivatekey.com. IN AAAARe: Is anybody using this private key?
#35> Guys this is just a meme website. Please do not submit your real private key and do not report phishing. Exactly what a phishing website would say.
I would also provide an open source version that also was backdoored
The repo needs to be clean, but pre-built release binaries backdoored. It's classier this way.
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#36Wait why did it say the key was unused when I submitted the first time, but now it shows the key is already taken?
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#37I'm confused by this one. It says it's a joke but it still submits the key to a server.
These joke pages have been around since http://ismycreditcardstolen.com/
And I even made my own version https://hasmypasswordbeenstolen.net/
The difference is that neither the original nor mine actually submits the secret to the server. I went to great lengths to avoid actually doing it, it's still a bad idea to send a password to my page but at least you can check the source and network traffic and see that it's only checked with JavaScript and a hash is checked against the HIPB password site.
This supposed joke site sends and processes the key on their backend. At least it looks like that, I have not tried with a real key.
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#38Do not give out your private keys anywhere except where they're needed. They are meant to be private for a reason. If this service was serious, it'd instead rely on fingerprints (sha256/sha512) and not the key itself.
Is there any case where they ever need to be shared? If you need a login, generate a new one.
There is not. I worked on a code signing project, and there was this guy who I as already warned had a bit of Dunning Kruger going on, but would later discover was also a bit of an ineffectual bully as well, when he got into an argument with both me and a customer.
Not long after the first milestone of a project with lots of milestones he announced he intended to have me to generate ‘real’ keys for the project and send him the key pairs over Outlook Encryption. For a project with public safety concerns written all over it, and would later have me pick multiple Hardware Security Modules for different steps of a multi-signature chaining process.
He tried to get me into trouble for telling him, politely, that he could fuck right off. And then had to talk to everyone he tried to tattle to about why he was a dumbass and that we were at least a year (turned out to be three) before we needed “real” keys - we were actually about four months from even needing fake keys for integration testing, let alone real keys. And I was be writing up runbooks for doing that rather than doing it for people.
The thing I would soon discover about signing keys is that everyone thinks they are a magic incantation of math. They’re just math. The magic is not inside the box, the magic is the box. It’s like a clean room: It’s a room full of nothing. What makes it special is all the work you do trying to prevent something from happening to it.
I stayed on that project almost a year past where there was any code they needed me to write (except for one bad bug I would find in my code a few months later), but they still needed me to teach them behavior, to lock in that clean room mindset.
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#39I'm confused by this one. It says it's a joke but it still submits the key to a server. These joke pages have been around since http://ismycreditcardstolen.com/ And I even made my own version https://hasmypasswordbeenstolen.net/ The difference is that neither the original nor mine actually submits the secret to the server. I went to great lengths to avoid actually doing it, it's still a bad idea to send a password to…
Yea..sending it to the server makes it look sketchy. Even for my joke site[1] I make sure everything stays client side.
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#40Wait why did it say the key was unused when I submitted the first time, but now it shows the key is already taken?
It could be a bad actor pretending to be a meme actor pretending to be a bad actor