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by 16s 13y ago
As others have mentioned. One-time pads are unbreakable: "While he was at Bell Labs, Shannon proved that the cryptographic one-time pad is unbreakable in his classified research that was later published in October 1949" - h
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by 16s 13y ago
Threats, imprisonment and physical violence can be used to attack crypto as well. Go after the weakest link.
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by 16s 13y ago
Use OpenPGP software on your local device (GnuPG). Never copy your private key into the could. Set a super strong password on the private key. You now can have point to point encryption that is "military grade" (per Bruce Schneier
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by 16s 13y ago
No central control. Point to point. It's like amateur radio communication where two people can talk directly with each other radio to radio.
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by 16s 13y ago
I believe it was written at Stanford. That caltech site describes how to use it. http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~abh/bbcp
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by 16s 13y ago
"The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth."
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by 16s 13y ago
Many Unix systems include Perl by default. This seems like a small thing, but in areas where 3rd-party software is not allowed (security and audit compliance issues), having a Perl interpreter is wonderful.
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by 16s 13y ago
Whether you fully misrepresent the story (tell a complete lie) or omit a portion of the story (tell a partial lie), they are both still lying. A partial lie is not more noble than a complete one.
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by 16s 13y ago
An omission of fact is a lie. Try doing it under oath. You'll go to jail. Source - "Also known as a continuing misrepresentation, a lie by omission occurs when an important fact is left out in order to foster a misconception. Lyin
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by 16s 13y ago
I make no judgement as to whether it is good or bad. That's just how it is.
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by 16s 13y ago
Cryptographic hash functions must be efficient to compute. Those examples (scrypt, bcrypt, etc) were designed to be difficult to compute. Those are password hash functions, not cryptogrpahic hash functions. Two totally different things with
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by 16s 13y ago
I call it the Fart App Generation. Triviality rules the day. People make money selling whoopee cushions too. And if you find meaning in that, then more power to you. It's not for me though.
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by 16s 13y ago
Understanding the C++ std containers is almost a complete lesson in data structures. std::set is typically a red black tree, std::unordered_set is a hash table, etc. Looking at how these containers are implemented and understanding how&#x2F
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by 16s 13y ago
Have any heavy C++ devs switched to go? What's the major advantage/compelling reason to switch? It seems to me that Go is more comparable to Python/Ruby and Java on the Web, but maybe I'm wrong.
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by 16s 13y ago
ISP rotated out the IP... DHCP. I'll find a static one someplace and put it up. Edit: This works until 3:30 PM today (East Coast USA time): telnet insult.16s.us
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by 16s 13y ago
That was inspired by this Great Santini quote: That was the man who dandled me on his knee when I was a young boy—the Great Santini. I once introduced my father when I was giving a talk like this, and I said, "My father decided to go i
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by 16s 13y ago
Telnet is simpler... I call this my random insult service and it can run on any TCP port. It's not as rude as saying "Fuck Off" as it is meant to be humorous and is intended for all the script-kiddie port scanners out there:
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by 16s 13y ago
A classroom full of guys is why some people (guys and girls) don't major in engineering.
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by 16s 13y ago
I was part of a Windows system install in 1993 for a mid-sized corporation. At that time, Windows 3.11 was wonderful. People were amazed by it. There were no writable CDs back then (floppies ruled), but it was being researched and people we
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by 16s 13y ago
When higher-level software begins requiring systemd (Gnome, KDE, etc.), the BSDs and other non-Linux, but Unix-like operating systems will no longer be able to use that software.
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by 16s 13y ago
Were it not for their name, "Cookies" would not be generally accepted. We should have named them "Roaches", then no one would say, well it's just a roach.
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by 16s 13y ago
All the includes are insane as well. Run Noscript or any other JS blocker and visit a few big sites and you'll see that you end up running JS from half the Internet. I'm joking of course, but some sites have dozens of includes fro
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by 16s 13y ago
If you are willing to risk smuggling one in and are foolish enough to think they cannot detect the radio waves, then go for it.
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by 16s 13y ago
Collect cellphones at door. Put them in steel cabinet. When workers leave, they can get the phones on the way out.
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by 16s 13y ago
Anyone wanting to learn more about information theory, decrypting to multiple plaintext messages or unbreakable encryption would find it interesting. OTP is an edge case and it does not scale (I understand that), but is useful for small mes
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by 16s 13y ago
I wrote some "home made" crypto about a year ago. It's a one-time pad implementation. http://16s.us/FreeOTP/nsa/ The math behind OTP is pretty simple, but I may have made a mistake. I've posted
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by 16s 13y ago
You asked why they would do this. I answered your question. Maps are sets. And by implementing map, you can use it as a map or a set. Perhaps you're not looking for an answer to your question? Say I implement log, but not log2. If you
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by 16s 13y ago
A map is a set. In a map, the key and value can be different things. In a set, they are the same. That's the only difference. They are both associative containers.
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by 16s 13y ago
"No built-in type for sets (have to use maps and test for existence)... In absence of sets, have to write your own intersection, union etc. methods" In my mind, a map is a set. They are both Associative containers. It's jus
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by 16s 13y ago
Long article, but worth reading. Interesting take as well. I never thought of the marshmallow test in terms of trusting the reward (more marshmallows) will come, but that makes a lot of sense. I trust they'll bring more, that's wh

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