The total entropy of all the stars, 10^82, is 2^270 I love this, because the useful 256 bit string (2^256) is only 43 characters long in base64, and to get to

The total entropy of all the stars, 10^82, is 2^270 I love this, because the useful 256 bit string (2^256) is only 43 characters long in base64, and to get to 2^270, it is only 45 base64 characters. I was just playing with this on Thursday, January 9th 2020 because I wanted to predict how many bits I needed to address every atom in the observable universe, which also just so happens to be 10^82. I use this example to depict the power of cryptography.