From 6bf147c9c19dd884834f4aa4755b5a20747ee2ff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: claylock Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2023 19:07:57 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Edited ch04_keys.adoc with Atlas code editor --- ch04_keys.adoc | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/ch04_keys.adoc b/ch04_keys.adoc index a3ccf953..6e485ee1 100644 --- a/ch04_keys.adoc +++ b/ch04_keys.adoc @@ -120,6 +120,7 @@ use to pick that number does not matter as long as it is not predictable or repeatable. Bitcoin software uses cryptographically secure random number generators to produce 256 bits of entropy. +[role="less_space pagebreak-before"] More precisely, the private key can be any number between 0 and _n_ - 1 inclusive, where _n_ is a constant (_n_ = 1.1578 × 10^77^, slightly less than 2^256^) defined as the order of the elliptic curve used in Bitcoin @@ -170,7 +171,7 @@ curve. by Bitcoin. [[ecc-curve]] -[role="width-30"] +[role="width-50"] .An elliptic curve image::images/mbc3_0402.png["ecc-curve"]