Comment on What is behind the current Lemmy meme about 4 being a private key?
klankin@piefed.ca 8 hours agoIts 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.
davetortoise@reddthat.com 8 hours ago
I know. Its still pointlessly obscure
Tetsuo@jlai.lu 6 hours ago
Aren’t all words you don’t understand obscure ?
Entropy is the correct word and is commonly use in cryptography.
davetortoise@reddthat.com 6 hours ago
Its a very simple concept and so there’s no reason to give it a scientific name which doesnt mean anything to most people