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Re:PuTTY vulnerability vuln-p521-bias by cozzyd on Tuesday April 16, 2024 @01:18AM (#40048607)
Plot twist: The choice of 521 is adversarial specifically to exploit PuTTY without being easily noticed. (Ok I get that 2^521-1 is a mersenne prime).
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Re:PuTTY vulnerability vuln-p521-bias by asddubs on Tuesday April 16, 2024 @04:48AM (#40049721)
maybe 2^521-1 being a mersenne prime is adversarial
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Re:PuTTY vulnerability vuln-p521-bias by tankenmate on Tuesday April 16, 2024 @05:08AM (#40049863)
only in base 10 :)
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Re:PuTTY vulnerability vuln-p521-bias by asddubs on Tuesday April 16, 2024 @09:41AM (#40051732)
I considered making that joke, that the established common base was picked adversarially to have 521 and 512 be confusingly similar but couldn't find a non convoluted way of expressing that without implying primes change with base
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