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00 00 00 20 27 27 28 29 29 08 23 23 19 19 11 05 16 04 19 03 03 09 14\  15 11 20 31 13  Note the long string of zero's at the beginning; these are what makes scalar randomization less effective. As one might expect, $rn \approx r2^{252} + r2^{104.45}$, and if $r < 2^{148}$, then bits 251 and below of $k + nr$ will be strongly correlated to the values of $k$.  Other special form primes don't have quite as striking of a form (I chose Curve25519 because it makes it obvious), but they too  also have long strings of 0's or $b-1$ values at the beginning. beginning, which yields the corresponding weakness.  However, let us consider what happens if we consider a $b$ which is not a power of 2. For example, if we were to take the same $n$ expressed in base $b=33$, we get: