Socat: “the hard coded 1024 bit DH p parameter was not prime”

Re:Socat: “the hard coded 1024 bit DH p parameter was not pr... by marvin on Monday February 01, 2016 @04:54PM (#11015810)

The likelihood of 1/2^80 is on the same order as me picking out a thousand grains of sand from the Sahara desert, spreading them randomly out through the desert and having you pick out those exact thousand grains of sand.

It's a practical impossibility, a philosophical exercise.

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Re:Socat: “the hard coded 1024 bit DH p parameter was not pr... by xyzzyz on Monday February 01, 2016 @05:14PM (#11015990)

No, it's not the same order. 1/2^80 is the same order as the likelihood of as picking 1000 grains out of 1010, and I'm sure you'll agree that Sahara has more grains that 1010.

However, if you picked a single grain from Sahara desert, you'll be only 2 or 3 orders of magnitude off, so one could say that 2^-80 is only slightly easier than finding a particular grain in a Sahara desert.

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Re:Socat: “the hard coded 1024 bit DH p parameter was not pr... by tika on Wednesday February 03, 2016 @09:30AM (#11026574)

Yes, but 1/2^80 is ridiculously large compared to 1/2^1024.

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