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dullcrisp • today at 3:13 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

80 bits couldn’t be guessed with modern technology right? That’s still a bigger number than I know a name for. (Or I guess a trillion trillion. Maybe if we stopped building AI and just used all the data centers for this we could guess it eventually?)


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murderfs • today at 3:25 AM

Elliptic curves can be broken with 2^(n/2) steps, so you could probably do it on a single GPU within a day.