India, Oct. 22 -- Bengaluru-based cybersecurity company eMudhra, which recently found itself at the centre of a security key issue, has announced plans to voluntarily wind down its global secure sockets layer and transport layer security (SSL/TLS) certificate business.

In a filing, the company said that the decision followed a security incident in which a researcher discovered that the private keys of eight intermediate certificate authority (CA) certificates were weak enough to be recovered. The discovery prompted browser root programmes, including Google and Mozilla, to distrust eMudhra's certificates, affecting its global TLS business.

eMudhra said it revoked the affected CAs within 14 hours of discovering the incident and disclosed ...