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Re:Socat: “the hard coded 1024 bit DH p parameter was not pr... by nothis on Monday February 01, 2016 @04:49PM (#11015778)
There's one in a thousand chances and there's 1-2^-80 chances. Wouldn't that be some "electrons in the universe" level coincidence? Believing in that borders on religion.
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Re:Socat: “the hard coded 1024 bit DH p parameter was not pr... by fivesigma on Monday February 01, 2016 @05:36PM (#11016173)
That would be 10^80 which is much, much larger than 2^80.

Unrelated, but 2^80 isn't that astronomic when it comes to computers, considering that the entire Bitcoin network has performed 2^84 hashes.

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