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minus-squareprettybunnys@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·15 hours agoI mean …. Yes, that would be secure. Sorta. It’s be dumb, and a pattern based attack could potentially solve it easily … but technically much more secure than 4
minus-squaresirprize@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up2·9 hours agoI get what you mean, but no, it would not be secure. The private key in question is really used as a number in a calculation, not as a string of digits. Leading zeroes would just be ignored.
minus-squareprettybunnys@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·9 hours agonot when it’s a representation of bits in a file The key itself being 00000000004 yah The key file being 0000000000000000000000……4 is a different story
I mean …. Yes, that would be secure.
Sorta.
It’s be dumb, and a pattern based attack could potentially solve it easily … but technically much more secure than
4I get what you mean, but no, it would not be secure. The private key in question is really used as a number in a calculation, not as a string of digits. Leading zeroes would just be ignored.
not when it’s a representation of bits in a file
The key itself being 00000000004 yah
The key file being
0000000000000000000000……4 is a different story