I think his point is that 2 raised to 192 is 256 times larger than 2 raised to 1...

		esrauch on June 15, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A possible flaw in open-source bcrypt implementati... I think his point is that 2 raised to 192 is 256 times larger than 2 raised to 184, meaning that you are getting 1/256 as many possible keys by reducing the key length by 8 bits.

Ahh, that's a good point. Thanks for clarifying.