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My Private Key (lemmy.zip)

submitted 1 day ago by cm0002@lemdro.id to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Yes... but no. You probably saw a rendering error.

The private keys in question were only eight bits in length (decimal values 0 to 255). A proper key for the specific encryption should have been 384 bits, or about 116 decimal digits. If a string format function expects a 384 bit number, but only receives 8, it might fill out the missing places with zeroes.