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by 101914 12y ago
How do the commercial CA's verify customers before issuing certs? Perhaps she does what they do. I imagine for example she knows her banker, her lawyer, etc. and can contact them by phone or meet with them in person. Maybe she also use
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by 101914 12y ago
I know a user who runs her own root CA. She only has one "customer": herself. Using the OpenSSL binary the cost is free. She decides which hosts she wants to trust, obtains their certs and signs them. She believes she can trust he
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by 101914 12y ago
When the user runs her own root, she can make tld's "disappear" by editing a text file. She can also create new ones. Similarly "ICANN" can "create" tld's by editing a text file. As we all know, mo
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by 101914 12y ago
Danger "v1" (hiptop) was NetBSD. True? Danger "v2" is Linux. True? Microsoft acquired Danger only to eliminate competition. True? I still remember their advert seeking NetBSD developers after the acquisition. I wonde
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by 101914 12y ago
Their motto was "Find the dependencies -- and eliminate them."
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by 101914 12y ago
Is this meant to be a general statement or just a response to some comment? One thing I do not like about the popular "strong" encryption solutions are that they are tied to relatively "weak" authentication solutions. I
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by 101914 12y ago
"...most users still spend time waiting for computers."
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by 101914 12y ago
Personal opinion: the world needs more code generators like qhasm.
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by 101914 12y ago
"Qmail is too old to be useable..." With regard to age, both qmail and Postfix were written around 1998. For my purposes, qmail works just fine. I use it; therefore it is "useable". For me, Postfix is overkill. Not fac
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by 101914 12y ago
"x86_64 Linux only"
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by 101914 12y ago
Interesting that you use the past tense. I am using such a language in the present. And it is working just fine. I have no need for Python but so many people are seemingly trying to coax me to use it. Such is the case for most of the ve
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by 101914 12y ago
I would go further and call this an obsession with using software that is literally changing by the day, in a constant state of flux. There seems a desire among those users who comment in forums to see recent commits to the software they us
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by 101914 12y ago
Did you try benchmarking against kdb+? Seems like there are always HN commenters lambasting CSV. I am sure they have very good reasons. But, as for me, CSV is one of my favorite formats. (Sort of like how people like XML or JSON I guess.)
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by 101914 12y ago
What is ELF? (top) ELF is a binary format designed to support dynamic objects and shared libraries. On older COFF and ECOFF systems, dynamic support and shared libraries were not naturally supported by the underlying format, l
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by 101914 12y ago
Contrast with "An implementation of the K5 interpreter." Or maybe others see them as one in the same? Of course from a performance and aesthetic perspective there is a world of difference between node.js and the tiny q/k int
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by 101914 12y ago
Your last line more or less captures my "intent". The idea is that if someone can reconsider the need for shared libraries, then could she also reconsider the need for ELF? But maybe there are other pertinent reasons that ELF exis
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by 101914 12y ago
While this particular implementation of ethernet over UDP (true/false?) is not my first choice for several reasons, I congratulate the author for (a) keeping the code small and (b) thinking beyond Windows/Linux/OSX, i.e., ena
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by 101914 12y ago
Shared libraries? Forwarding to the present day, with ample inexpensive memory and secondary storage space available, what if for some strange reason I do not use shared libraries in my project? Is there still a need for ELF? Why or why no
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by 101914 12y ago
From the comments: "Zilog wrote their own assembler and changed the mnemonics because Intel had copyrighted them."
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by 101914 12y ago
Ancient history question: What was the main problem the creators of the ELF were trying to address at the time the ELF was adopted?
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by 101914 12y ago
Both you and tptacek understand what it is I want. Apparently the musl author is on the same page too. Very good. But note my goal is not to achieve "better" than what someone else has written. My goal is having more control ove
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by 101914 12y ago
"...huck the whole thing and rewrite it in assembly." What are the functions in libc that you truly need and use? How many of those routines are you incapable or unwilling to rewrite yourself? I have asked myself these questions o
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by 101914 12y ago
"... as the project grew beyond a boot sector, he wrapped his assembly as C inlines..." he = Linus Torvalds project = Linux
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by 101914 12y ago
s/2k/2b/g
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by 101914 12y ago
Or you completely misunderstood my point. I was not agreeing or disagreeing with the OP, nor with you. I was pointing out that there is another way to look at the speed situation, besides the obvious one. Perhaps we could say that the way
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by 101914 12y ago
I am aware of that. Of course I am not using a kernel that fits in 512k, but personally I prefer software that fits in 512k and I write and use such software regularly. But it still does not change the point of my comment. One can either
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by 101914 12y ago
"...the speed is just incredible." Others have suggested: Perhaps it seems "fast" only because the systems that are considered acceptable today are (by comparison) incredibly slow. "... purpose built..." I beli
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by 101914 12y ago
"Cloud-client computing"
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by 101914 12y ago
Note sure what "lifted over" means exactly. I once explained PKI to someone in their 70's who grew up without the personal computer and at one point they stopped me and asked "Why don't they just publish their publi
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by 101914 12y ago
What if I do not want to transfer the key over an insecure network of computer networks that are trivial to tamper with? What if I would prefer to look up or obtain the key via some other means (that I deem more trustworthy that the interne

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