Comment by danw1979
1 day ago
The first 6 keys are literally someone typing them in lazily on a keyboard. You can almost see their fingers barely moving across the top numeric row as they generate them.
1 day ago
The first 6 keys are literally someone typing them in lazily on a keyboard. You can almost see their fingers barely moving across the top numeric row as they generate them.
Looking at the pattern I would actually suspect a numberpad over top row of the keyboard. That explains how the responsible party got 1-5-6 without exhausting their delicate digits.
My guess is that someone was instructed to generate "random bytes" and just did 'char secret = rand()' or something similar.
Yup. I think they literally think a 256-bit key is just a random number between 1 and 255.
Why would they even do this? A standard random number generator is probably less work
You can see the thought at 230 of "Ok, that was dumb, gotta move my fingers on the numpad slightly this time to throw them a curveball"
An elliptic curveball even