2026-10-20 23:57 UTC
Sorry for being That Guy, but in elliptic curve cryptography, the private key is just a random sequence of bits, not a product of two primes
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@joe@f.duriansoftware.com 2026-10-21 00:03
@slava@mathstodon.xyz what if your random sequence of bits happens to be the product of two primes
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@rk@mastodon.well.com 2026-10-21 00:00
@slava@mathstodon.xyz Right it’s just a sequence of bits, it’s not the product of one or more primes.