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by fiddlerwoaroof 838 days ago
But, this is just relying on the obscurity of the key: all security comes down to some form of secret knowledge. It’s just better to use a space that’s hard to enumerate than a low-cardinality space: if we had 1024 bits of port numbers, picking a random port would be as hard to crack as a 1024 bit encryption key.