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My Private Key (lemmy.zip)
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[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 1 points 24 minutes ago

Today's XKCD is weirdly relevant. They should upgrade to 5.

[–] sheridan@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

I'm OOTL. Why am I seeing the number 4 everywhere?

[–] MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I assume his private key ended up being mostly 4s?

[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 4 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (2 children)

"Mostly", that's commendable optimism on your part. Not mostly but entirely. It's the entirety of the key: 4.

https://emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com/

Edit: the source I wanted to link is down, probably server overwhelm. Ask the search engine of your choice for emudhra.

[–] YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca 2 points 35 minutes ago (1 children)

Wasn’t it a bunch of zeros followed by a 4?

[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 2 points 33 minutes ago

I've been lead to believe that that makes no difference.

[–] MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 1 points 20 minutes ago

Hahaha, yeah just read it. Amazing...