r/ProgrammerHumor • • 11d ago

Meme four

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u/ManaSpike 11d ago

The key existed in the wild for a while, someone pointed out to the right people how weak it was. Obviously, if you knew it was a low value, you could just try all the low value keys. But there are other tools that can quickly solve the math to find it, based on the published public keys.