• prettybunnys@piefed.social
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    24 hours ago

    I mean …. Yes, that would be secure.

    Sorta.

    It’s be dumb, and a pattern based attack could potentially solve it easily … but technically much more secure than 4

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      19 hours ago

      I get what you mean, but no, it would not be secure. The private key in question is really used as a number in a calculation, not as a string of digits. Leading zeroes would just be ignored.

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        18 hours ago

        not when it’s a representation of bits in a file

        The key itself being 00000000004 yah

        The key file being

        0000000000000000000000……4 is a different story