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@shanecelis@mastodon.gamedev.place 2 days ago

"This is my private key: 4, and if you don't like it… well, I have others."—Groucho Marx

2^n

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@shanecelis@mastodon.gamedev.place 2 days ago

2/ Context: https://medium.com/asecuritysite-when-bob-met-alice/and-the-random-number-is-4-5d92f48c19f7

And The Random Number is … 4

And The Random Number is … 4 Also, private keys of 155, 237, 66, 56, 115, 230, and 156 A few years ago, the Sony PlayStation was hacked, as Sony had used a private key of 9 to sign their software …

@shanecelis@mastodon.gamedev.place 2 days ago

3/ Holy heck, was the original xkcd rand() actually 4 too?

int get RandomNumber ()
{
return 4; // chosen by fair dice roll.
// guaranteed to be random.
} — int get RandomNumber () { return 4; // chosen by fair dice roll. // guaranteed to be random. }

@krapp@krapp.masto.host 2 days ago

@shanecelis How many people do you think literally use "correct horse battery staple" as a password? Probably a lot.

@shanecelis@mastodon.gamedev.place 2 days ago

@krapp Most popular high-entropy phrase I bet.

@shanecelis@mastodon.gamedev.place 2 days ago

4/ You couldn't confirm this yesterday because of the PHP vulnerability.

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/221:_Random_Number

221: Random Number

@shanecelis@mastodon.gamedev.place 1 hr. ago

5/ TURN DOWN 4 WHAT?!

A private key is what.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMUDVMiITOU

DJ Snake, Lil Jon - Turn Down for What

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