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Personally I'd love working in that kind of environment. That one in a billion hole still itches at me. There's also a slightly-perverse little voice in my head ready with popcorn in case I'm lucky enough to watch the ensuing fallout from the first major crypto hash collision :-).


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.


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


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




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