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edelbitter • yesterday at 10:37 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

>they can be hit randomly with 2^30 tries

More precisely: not very random tries.


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mswphd • yesterday at 11:20 PM

unless your guess is that the hypothetical ECC weakness is somehow correlated with the LCG structure, the draws from the LCG are as good as random.

It is possible such a correlation could occur. but it would be much weirder than this being the result of a random search, which would already be very weird.