| ▲ | bombcar 7 hours ago |
| Of COURSE it's easy to crack, 4 isn't even prime! |
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| ▲ | DavidSJ 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| In their defense, they were probably targeting the Mersenne prime 2^2 - 1 and just made a typo. |
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| ▲ | throw0101a 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | > In their defense, they were probably targeting the Mersenne prime 2^2 - 1 and just made a typo. There are two hard problems in computer science: naming things, cache invalidation, and off-by-one errors. | | |
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| ▲ | wolfi1 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| ok, it's joke. but for those who don't get it: elliptic curves don't need primes |
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| ▲ | joshuat 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| It’s really impressive no one caught their three previous private key values |
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| ▲ | chompychop 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| They should have gone with 57. Everyone knows it's prime. |
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| ▲ | bee_rider 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I wonder if anyone wants to over-analyze this joke to come up with the best candidates for the number? 57 falls too easily to the quick divisibility by 3 trick, IMO. (I realize over-analyzing jokes always makes them unfunny but we can pick the best number here and nobody has to know). | | |
| ▲ | samatman an hour ago | parent [-] | | Me! I'm in! Most-nearly-prime number under 100 is.... 91. 13 x 7. You've either memorized that or you're going to have fun deciding it's not prime. And if you did times tables up to 13, congratulations, you're special. |
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| ▲ | kachnuv_ocasek 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Alex? You're alive after all? |
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| ▲ | delibes 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| https://xkcd.com/221/ |
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| ▲ | lta 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | It's been a while since this one popped up.
It's surprising how many of those doodles are surviving the test if times, in the midst unexpected ways |
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| ▲ | ohuf 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| it doesn't have to be and it actually never is: this isn't RSA, it's an elliptic curve algorithm. if you'd have read the article, you'd have understood this |
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| ▲ | Zeetah 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| The number 4 is very famous. https://xkcd.com/221/ |
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| ▲ | walrus01 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Hey, that's the same combination I have on my luggage! |
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| ▲ | wowczarek 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | Good job the Earth doesn't have an air shield protected by this byte or we'd be Skroob'd. |
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