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Comment by iterance

11 hours ago

Random number 0-255

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account42  1 hour ago

Doesn't even seem to be all that random within that range. For example all digits within each number go left to right on a keyboard.

charles_f  7 hours ago

Hey that's a byte of entropy! And one of the rare cases where choosing a larger value might offer you better "protection" against serialized brute force attacks

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