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Disgraced Indian cert issuer leaves the cert issuing business

After embarrassing reports revealed weak private keys, one of which was just a single digit, Indian certification authority eMudhra has decided to take the L and get out of the global SSL/TLS cert game entirely. eMudhra announced Thursday that it was abandoning that arm of its business. Sure, the intense scrutiny heaped on the company was a factor, but the firm also argued that growing compliance costs and competition from free certificate providers had made the business increasingly difficult to justify. “Global SSL/TLS is a small part of eMudhra’s business contributing to about 1 percent of the global revenue,” the company explained, noting that free SSL/TLS cert issuance from large firms and increased compliance and data sovereignty requirements have made it a minor part of the firm’s…

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