Comment on What is behind the current Lemmy meme about 4 being a private key?

• davetortoise@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  ‘Entropy’ doesnt apply here

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  • klankin@piefed.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It does doesn’t it?

    The higher the number of bits, the more entropy in the system.

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    • davetortoise@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s a pointlessly obscure way of saying there are more numbers

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      • klankin@piefed.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Its a measure of the randomness of numbers in the system, ie the definition of entropy.

        People do use it to sound cool, but this use still fits its mathematic definition.

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  • balsoft@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No it absolutely does, the method they used to generate private keys ended up having just 8 shannons of entropy which led to the discovery we are discussing

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