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Re:Case Study: Npm uses Rust for its CPU-bound bottlenecks [... by throwaway66666 on Sunday March 03, 2019 @05:18PM (#19297296)
My gut feeling is that the user keys are not random generated, but actually encrypted strings that contain the permission values. Decrypting them with modern encryption algorithms (like ChaCha) is pretty CPU intensive.
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