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More people do X makes X more done.

why does it fail so horribly for X = protecting a secret? or does it?

(I'm not 3, by the way...)

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[-] netvor@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

this way of phrasing is reasonable but it feels like those should cancel out. i mean why taking a situation of 1 person protecting a secret and multiplying it by N changes it.

[-] netvor@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

oh i got it now.

if it's 1000 people protecting 1000 different secrets (each their own) then it does cancel out.

note that it does get worse if the secret-guesser knows something about the statistical distribution of those secrets, and the value of each secret is kind of interchangeable to them. then things like rainbow tables exist.

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