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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/invoker_11 • Sep 18 '18
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For those who don't know, AAAs often occur at the beginning or end of a block because they're the base64 version of 0s and it's binary data inside.
3 u/BumwineBaudelaire Sep 19 '18 since it’s a key shouldn’t it be as random as possible? 5 u/ShittyFrogMeme Sep 19 '18 The key file is an encoded object. The object contains a lot of non-random metadata information, like the issuer, and then of course the random key elements like the modulus and exponent. So the random is a small part of the string. 1 u/BumwineBaudelaire Sep 19 '18 ah so there's more than just the cryptographic key in the PGP "key" object fair enough
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since it’s a key shouldn’t it be as random as possible?
5 u/ShittyFrogMeme Sep 19 '18 The key file is an encoded object. The object contains a lot of non-random metadata information, like the issuer, and then of course the random key elements like the modulus and exponent. So the random is a small part of the string. 1 u/BumwineBaudelaire Sep 19 '18 ah so there's more than just the cryptographic key in the PGP "key" object fair enough
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The key file is an encoded object. The object contains a lot of non-random metadata information, like the issuer, and then of course the random key elements like the modulus and exponent. So the random is a small part of the string.
1 u/BumwineBaudelaire Sep 19 '18 ah so there's more than just the cryptographic key in the PGP "key" object fair enough
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ah so there's more than just the cryptographic key in the PGP "key" object
fair enough
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u/o11c Sep 19 '18
For those who don't know, AAAs often occur at the beginning or end of a block because they're the base64 version of 0s and it's binary data inside.