How is this even possible btw? Doesn’t the private key have to match the public key? Surely this would have been noticed earlier if it had a short public key as well?
Cryptographic hash functions are functions that take a variable-length input and return a fixed-length output, which can be used in, for example, a digital signature.
Just make sure not to get MITM’d by someone whose secret key password is “4”.
Not the password. The key. The entire key (excluding metadata) is
0b100.How is this even possible btw? Doesn’t the private key have to match the public key? Surely this would have been noticed earlier if it had a short public key as well?
They use Cryptographic hash functions, so the actual key length is not reflected in the resulting hash length.
“Astonishingly, the private keys were 4, 56, 66, 115, 155, 156, 230, [and ] 237.”
Don’t worry, they’ve changed their key. It’s “5” now.
It’s Five 5s, uncrackable.