It's not that 4 isn't a valid seed (though insanely unlikely) it's that once I know your values weren't picked randomly because I guessed one of them I can easily figure out the others.

In this case one cert gets defeated and you go the odds of that number being that low are 2^-384. Essentially impossible if it were randomly selected. It's much more likely you didn't choose that at random so I start guessing a bunch of other low numbers for your other certificates and find them quickly.

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chrisjj 37 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

> It's not that 4 isn't a valid seed (though insanely unlikely)

I have an insanely unlikely unique car licence plate number to sell you.

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nomel 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> Essentially impossible if it were randomly selected.

You would say the same of any seed I gave you. You've just artificially assigned this number with some sort of emotional importance.

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Quinner 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

If you cherry-pick that statement in isolation you're technically correct. But in practice the whole comment you're replying to is actually correct, in this case if you saw the number four, one would be correct in concluding that's unlikely and searching other low digit numbers, the proof of that is that it happened here.

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eatkd 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

They had multiple keys and 7 of the keys were numbers less than 256.

	▲	nomel 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yes, and that is what's statistically impossible. They said one cert. > In this case one cert gets defeated and you go the odds of that number being that low are 2^-384.