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Re:Socat: “the hard coded 1024 bit DH p parameter was not pr... by ninguem2 on Monday February 01, 2016 @06:25PM (#11016505)
This number (removed, as it seemed to cause problem in some browsers, sorry) fails the Fermat test for base 2 (i.e. 2^(p-1) is not 1 mod p). I can't believe it will pass Miller-Rabin. Edit: fails all bases up to 1000.
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Re:Socat: “the hard coded 1024 bit DH p parameter was not pr... by nathancahill on Monday February 01, 2016 @06:32PM (#11016537)
Congrats, you broke HN.
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Re:Socat: “the hard coded 1024 bit DH p parameter was not pr... by ninguem2 on Monday February 01, 2016 @06:40PM (#11016587)
What, how?
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Re:Socat: “the hard coded 1024 bit DH p parameter was not pr... by nathancahill on Monday February 01, 2016 @06:43PM (#11016606)
Stick the number in a code block (4 spaces at the beginning of the line). The CSS here doesn't handle long strings well.
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