It's not really a linear relationship for cryptographic seed sizes. The security often rely on the "birthday bound" which depends on cipher block size. The outdated cipher 3DES-CBC w/ 64 bit blocks (although the key is longer) is safe for ~785 GB data, that's 40B times expansion.
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That doesn't sound right. I'm not sure what the usage limits would be now in light of sweet32, but it'd have to be much much lower.
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Sequoia security is all bark no bite though
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A crypto seed doesn't need additional entropy to generate that output. A Sequoia seed requires pure entropy to grow.
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My family was just discussing this at the dinner table tonight.
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Well, if I got it right, a human zygote can generate a human almost 17B times its volume - we are so much better! That being said, the average password entropy of redwood trees might actually be better than that of humans :)
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So what you're telling me is that "SeedSpring" was a bad name and I should've gone with Sequoia?https://github.com/paragonie/seedspring …
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That is absolutely beautiful. Thank you for sharing! It's awe inspiring to think how far out understanding of computing and science has come and still pales with so much to nature. I expect it will always be so, and when it isn't, then we have issues!
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Just finished Richard Powers’ novel “The Overstory” —perfect tie-in. Thank you!
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But a seed can only grow one tree...
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