Comment by TheJoeMan
18 hours ago
I just explained what it actually is. I said "you know how you go to a website HTTPS and it's secure? Well Apple chose a couple of trusted parties that your phone inherently trusts, and those people approve a few thousand intermediate companies who do the day-to-day certificate work for end websites. One of those intermediates, rather than choosing a 200-digit random number, chose 4, no not four-digits, the number 4". And then we could laugh at some of the memes.
Our 200 digit random number was 199 zeroes followed by a 4
- emudhra lawyer maybe (:
Private key size is 384 bits or 116 decimal digits. So 115 zeroes.
You mean, the key was 383 zeros and one “one”, on the third place from the right :)
I really wonder if this would/should hold in court. It is ridiculously unlikely yet genuinely possible.
One of them, sure. 8 of them?
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technically possible
Not just technically possible, as likely as getting any other random 116(?) digit number
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