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What do you if pi doesn't create a nice curve?
by tedunangst 3y ago
What do you if pi doesn't create a nice curve?
- some_furry 3y agoDoesn't pi by definition make a nice curve? (Dumb geometry joke, sorry. I know what you mean.)
- kevincox 3y agoYou come up with a hopefully simple rule to try again. Like skip the first byte and try again. Assuming that you publish your definition of "a nice curve" then third parties can verify that you used the first offset in pi that worked.
- tedunangst 3y agoAh, of course, just drop bits until it "happens" to work. You would suggest that, instead of the simple and obvious solution of using pi times e.
- quickthrower2 3y agoYou could however test different schemes like this prior to announcing the scheme.
- Dylan16807 3y agoThere's only so much room for simple methods. So maybe you get to pick the most crackable for you out of 25 options. But you can't hide a proper backdoor like that.
- duskwuff 3y agoAnd if it's possible to get an easy-to-break configuration in a relatively small number of attempts, it's probably because there's something fundamentally broken about the entire construct, not just the seed you picked. And that sort of brokenness is likely to be a lot harder to hide.