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Originally Posted by Aalfabob
Isnt the formula combinations = bytes ^ values
so like a 512 byte peice of data ^ 256 possible charactors = 3.742e+693 combinations?
edit - Nm got the wrong formula from someone.
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Close, but not quite. If you want to think of it that way, it's actually 256 ^ 512. Think about it this way: there are 256 possiblities for the first byte, times 256 for the second, times 256 for the third, etc, etc. Thus, you get 256*256*256*... = 256 ^ 512.