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> WARNING: Do NOT use Beacon generated values as cryptographic secret keys! As a thought experiment what would happen if you did this?
by Mistletoe 2y ago
> WARNING: Do NOT use Beacon generated values as cryptographic secret keys!
As a thought experiment what would happen if you did this?
- Khoth 2y agoSomeone who knew or guessed that you were doing it could find your key very quickly by trying out every beacon value in the time range your key was generated in
- Retr0id 2y agosimilar things to if you were to use the top row of your keyboard as a password
- ArchOversight 2y agoThat is why I continue to use hunter2 as my password.
- 0cf8612b2e1e 2y agoYou use ******* as a password? That’s all on a single line of the keyboard.
- sowbug 2y agoMany exploited systems have effectively done this. A random number generator is seeded with something like "PID + timestamp + milliseconds since system startup." But all these numbers cluster in a small range, so it's practical to test all of them and figure out the seed.