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by fooker 1052 days ago
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.
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rkagerer 1051 days ago
The one in a billion was in reference to storage related stats described in the article. Not private crypto keys.
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delecti 1051 days ago
I love conversations like this that remind me how unintuitive big numbers are.
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