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		fooker on July 28, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Building and operating a pretty big storage system... That probability is significantly lower than one in a billion. One in a billion would be if keys were ~30 bits. Luckily it isn't.

rkagerer on July 29, 2023 | [–]

The one in a billion was in reference to storage related stats described in the article. Not private crypto keys.

delecti on July 28, 2023 | [–]

I love conversations like this that remind me how unintuitive big numbers are.

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