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by bawolff 1206 days ago
I think the ELI5 version is - if you are doing complex things with math, 0 and 1 probably have weird properties so you should avoid those numbers. If you're picking a key you should generally do it randomly as certain numbers may have special properties that are exploitable, but the chance of getting such a number by chance is basically zero.