*   Low numbers might encounter all sorts of well-known cryptographic 
problems, and varying the padding of the domain name with any granularity would 
tend to narrow the search space for an attacker.

What well-known cryptographic problems?  Varying the padding can also *add* 
security because foo.secret.example.com could show up with two different sizes.
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