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Plot twist: The choice of 521 is adversarial specifically to exploit PuTTY without being easily noticed. (Ok I get that 2^521-1 is a mersenne prime).
by cozzyd 3y ago
Plot twist: The choice of 521 is adversarial specifically to exploit PuTTY without being easily noticed. (Ok I get that 2^521-1 is a mersenne prime).
- asddubs 3y agomaybe 2^521-1 being a mersenne prime is adversarial
- tankenmate 3y agoonly in base 10 :)
- asddubs 3y agoI considered making that joke, that the established common base was picked adversarially to have 521 and 512 be confusingly similar but couldn't find a non convoluted way of expressing that without implying primes change with base