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asddubs
on April 16, 2024
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PuTTY vulnerability vuln-p521-bias
maybe 2^521-1 being a mersenne prime is adversarial
tankenmate
on April 16, 2024
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only in base 10 :)
asddubs
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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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