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The primes used for RSA and the like are 1024 or 2048 binary digits long.
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Feb 17, 2020·1 min read

Well, we could probably handle a few trillion but 2⁵⁰ that’s too many.

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Engineer and veteran, 13 years of Design Engineering, 20+ years in Software Engineering, Go enthusiast. I read a lot, write some too, ivank2139@protonmail.com

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