[rkagerer]

Personally I'd love working in that kind of environment. That one in a billion hole still itches at me. There's also a slightly-perverse little voice in my head ready with popcorn in case I'm lucky enough to watch the ensuing fallout from the first major crypto hash collision :-).

[fooker]

That probability is significantly lower than one in a billion.

One in a billion would be if keys were ~30 bits. Luckily it isn't.

[rkagerer]

The one in a billion was in reference to storage related stats described in the article. Not private crypto keys.

[delecti]

I love conversations like this that remind me how unintuitive big numbers are.