[Cryptography] Entropy Needed for SSH Keys?

Jonathan Thornburg jthorn at astro.indiana.edu
Fri May 27 22:21:17 EDT 2016


On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 01:17:24PM -0700, Ray Dillinger wrote:
> IIRC, one nanosecond was once defined to me as the approximate
> amount of time it takes for light to travel fifteen centimeters.

It's actually 29.98cm = 11.80 inches (in round numbers, 1 foot).

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