@varx @NatGrayYes What mistakes would you have to make to get an ECDSA key to be just '4'?

@aimaz @NatGrayYes There are plenty of great examples here. I should take notes, and add these to my teaching library.

@NatGrayYes To be fair all PGP keys are the multiplication of two prime numbers. But ideally the numbers are not the same, and quite a bit longer. But what is a couple thousand bits difference between friends?

@wlaatje Even if Musk's ideal future without jobs comes to pass, Musk has no reason to extend this beyond the US. The rest of the world can then work in the mines to gather the required materials to feed the machine, or something.