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The page makes use of numeric expressions like 9x2^27. What's with the choice of exponent? Why not e.g. 1.125x2^30?
by SerpentJoe 11y ago
The page makes use of numeric expressions like 9x2^27. What's with the choice of exponent? Why not e.g. 1.125x2^30?
- Sanddancer 11y agoIt's fairly normal in crypto papers to express vulnerabilities and potential vulnerabilities in base two, as so many other bits of crypto, like key sizes, etc, are also expressed in that base.
- Freaky 11y agoHe's questioning normalisation, not base. "Just over 2^30" is a bit more intuitive than "Just under ten times 2^27".
- gipsies 11y agoBecause in the paper they tested the attack with 1x2^27 requests, then with 2x2^27 requests, then 3x2^27, etc etc.