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Re:Lavabit's Dark Mail Initiative by hkmurakami on Monday November 04, 2013 @09:41PM (#6672877)
>What's with the weird goal amount though? Is there some significance there that I'm not aware of?

It seems to be 2^16 * 3

No idea what that means.

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Re:Lavabit's Dark Mail Initiative by selmnoo on Tuesday November 05, 2013 @02:01AM (#6673632)
It's a regular Hamming number. The 363th. Yeah, not sure what's the significance either.
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Re:Lavabit's Dark Mail Initiative by davidsong on Tuesday November 05, 2013 @06:04AM (#6674433)
Maybe the three of them working on it want 64k each because they like round numbers.
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Re:Lavabit's Dark Mail Initiative by GhotiFish on Tuesday November 05, 2013 @12:01AM (#6673295)
I'm impressed you worked that out.
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