I just explained what it actually is. I said "you know how you go to a website HTTPS and it's secure? Well Apple chose a couple of trusted parties that your phone inherently trusts, and those people approve a few thousand intermediate companies who do the day-to-day certificate work for end websites. One of those intermediates, rather than choosing a 200-digit random number, chose 4, no not four-digits, the number 4". And then we could laugh at some of the memes.
Our 200 digit random number was 199 zeroes followed by a 4
- emudhra lawyer maybe (:
Private key size is 384 bits or 116 decimal digits. So 115 zeroes.
You mean, the key was 383 zeros and one “one”, on the third place from the right :)
I really wonder if this would/should hold in court. It is ridiculously unlikely yet genuinely possible.
One of them, sure. 8 of them?
At this point we're talking about chances so slim that only philosophy can save the situation.
technically possible
Not just technically possible, as likely as getting any other random 116(?) digit number
Feynman's license plate
i think this oversells the likelihood of it. the probability of any random 116 digit number having its first 115 digits be the number zero is much lower than that of it containing a much higher number of non-zero digits.