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Re:Illegal prime by ythn on Friday April 27, 2018 @03:24PM (#16943567)
You'd still need to know that the number is a base 256 encoded string, and the chances you run across such a number in an innocent context (i.e. math publication) seems infinitesimal.

Someone who knowingly hosts a base-256 encoded secret should be held as accountable as if they had hosted the same information in picture form, morse code form, or plaintext.

Re:Illegal prime by mikeash on Friday April 27, 2018 @04:21PM (#16943962)
Base 256 is plaintext. That’s just standard bytes.