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It'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,
by Sanddancer 11y ago
It'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".