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Re:How is NSA breaking so much crypto? by qb45 on Thursday October 15, 2015 @04:34AM (#10392021)
That somebody maliciously caused the circle's circumference to diameter ratio to be insecure in this application is indeed not an issue.

However, a possible danger is that somebody maliciously suggested using π instead of e...

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Re:How is NSA breaking so much crypto? by cperciva on Thursday October 15, 2015 @04:23PM (#10395742)
True, but Pi is pretty much tradition now... enough so that when Decorrelated Fast Cipher used e instead, it raised some eyebrows.
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