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Re:Socat: “the hard coded 1024 bit DH p parameter was not pr... by brianberns on Monday February 01, 2016 @06:06PM (#11016376)
I don't think Bayes' theorem applies very well here, because there's no practical way to check enough numbers such that the effect you're describing comes into play. 2^80 is approximately a million billion billion (10^24), so if you had a million CPUs each checking a billion numbers every second, it would still take a billion seconds (over 30 years) to check that many numbers. I suspect that's why such a small level of uncertainty was chosen in the first place.
Re:Socat: “the hard coded 1024 bit DH p parameter was not pr... by anon4711 on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @03:07PM (#11022092)
Why would 10^24 be a million billion billion? It's 4 blocks of 6 zeros each, so that I'd expect you to call it a billion billion billion billion, if anything.
Re:Socat: “the hard coded 1024 bit DH p parameter was not pr... by jibalt on Wednesday February 03, 2016 @01:46PM (#11028610)
1 million = 10^6. 1 billion = 10^9. 6+9+9 = 24.

This isn't rocket science.