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CSMastermind • today at 1:50 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

It's not that 4 isn't a valid seed (though insanely unlikely) it's that once I know your values weren't picked randomly because I guessed one of them I can easily figure out the others.

In this case one cert gets defeated and you go the odds of that number being that low are 2^-384. Essentially impossible if it were randomly selected. It's much more likely you didn't choose that at random so I start guessing a bunch of other low numbers for your other certificates and find them quickly.


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chrisjj • today at 5:59 PM

> It's not that 4 isn't a valid seed (though insanely unlikely)

I have an insanely unlikely unique car licence plate number to sell you.

nomel • today at 3:09 PM

> Essentially impossible if it were randomly selected.

You would say the same of any seed I gave you. You've just artificially assigned this number with some sort of emotional importance.

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