alt Hacker NewsThis is actually interesting. I'm no cryptographer. Do modern algorithms take into account that certain values should be avoided because they would be obvious things to try first in a brute force attack?
This is actually interesting. I'm no cryptographer. Do modern algorithms take into account that certain values should be avoided because they would be obvious things to try first in a brute force attack?
I have no idea but I can imagine why you'd want to bias things away from principled randomness to avoid picking 0 or 4 or whatever.