JoachimS

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by JoachimS 13y ago
Yes. And if that moves something forward - good! For me this gamification works. Yes I do commits I feel more proud of than others. Yes, I 'cheat' and create tons of projects which makes it easy to find stuff to commit. And yes, k
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by JoachimS 13y ago
For me gamification works. I'm a sucker for the stats Github can display for a project. And keeping that streak going. I've started to throw all my embarrasing, childish project onto github. If someone files a comment regarding ho
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by JoachimS 13y ago
And step 1 is the key (no pun intended) difference with what is described in the linked post. The scheme described in the post is basically a keyless secret splitting (steganography), not key based encryption. But adding an image with good
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by JoachimS 13y ago
This is an interesting, good 'up the ante' (or follow up) from MS to Mozilla. Mozilla announced waay back at the end of 2010 that it will phase out support for certs using MD5 and 1024 bit keys: https://wiki.mozilla.org
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by JoachimS 13y ago
I have now tried Jytter on OSX (MBA with Ivy Bridge Core i7). I get about 50 kbps from jytter. Testing the data with Dieharder I get about 82% success rate on the test cases.
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by JoachimS 13y ago
Havege and other CPU-based entropy sources are interesting. But they do implicit assumptions such as that the TSC is somehow giving you real measurements (and is not virtualized for example) and that the CPU has cache memories, do out-of-or
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by JoachimS 13y ago
Thanks!
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by JoachimS 13y ago
But moving from AES and SHA to RC4 and MD5 should have made a few bells go if simply because it is bad engineering and shows lack of knowledge. If we want to move away from MD5 and RC4 we first must start deprecating their usage wherever we
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by JoachimS 13y ago
(disclaimer, I'm one of the Salsa20 in TLS draft authors). Note that the suggestion of using Salsa20 is to replace RC4 not only to get better performance, but because RC4 is broken (as you know). Salsa20 (and ChaCha) can be implemented
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by JoachimS 13y ago
Actually, RC4 is pretty memory hungry (with a state of 256 bytes) and performs a lot of read operations that hit main store in small devices.
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by JoachimS 13y ago
If you have the reputation points, please suggest it to be included in the test on Stack Exchange. SipHash was developed to replace CityHash, Murmurhash as well as being a fast and secure PRF.
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by JoachimS 13y ago
In terms om symmetric ciphers we know of two chinese ones: sms4 and zuc. The latter has also been accepted as standard by 3GPP (SAGE). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS4 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by JoachimS 13y ago
Yes, and that some embedded 32-bit systems deployed today will be in service come 2038. And quite probably some 16-bit, 8-bit ones too.
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by JoachimS 13y ago
I would love to see how much better the detection would be if the accelerometer input was combined with the microphone.
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by JoachimS 13y ago
Actually, you probably want to do something similar to what Danny Hillis did with Babble. In his case emit speech sounding zero info sounds. In this case, vibrate similarly to a keyboard writing Lorem Ipsum (though not exactly that - then i
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by JoachimS 13y ago
(Huge discussion here - lets add to it. ;-) There are several things here that people in discussion seems to miss och confuse. I've been working with biometrics and can at least try to clear things up. For authentication (and identific
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by JoachimS 13y ago
If users not using any PIN is moving to TouchID then it is good. If users using PIN moves to TouchID then it is not as sunny.
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by JoachimS 13y ago
Was the culprit found and outed?
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by JoachimS 13y ago
Here is the Microsoft Strategic Rationale presetation: http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.microsoft.c...
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by JoachimS 13y ago
The deal is also very interesting as it clearly points to what the board of MS sees as the future - to truly become a device vendor. They have had success with Xbox, but failed with Zune and first generation Surface. Can they really transfo
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by JoachimS 13y ago
This is a great move - for Nokia. Now Nokia has a huge pile of money to take on Huawei, Ericsson and Cisco etc in the mobile network field. Remember, Nokia bought out Siemens from NSN as recent as July this year: http://www.busin
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by JoachimS 13y ago
Not that NSA probably has the resources to do, and are probably doing all of it at the same time. Having smart thinkers spending time trying to come up with analytical solutions isn't that costly in comparison to a lot of other venues
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by JoachimS 13y ago
The really interesting thing is not really Ballmers demise and who will replace him. The really interesting thing to watch is what will happen when the new CEO has taken the helms and present the restructuring that will inevitably follow. T
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by JoachimS 13y ago
That is actually very interesting. How well would our (in)ability to parse what code (SW) does without actually running it transcend to genes. STA for genes? Are genes Turing Complete. ;-)
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by JoachimS 13y ago
I think the article put the finger of something important. I have had the fortune to work at a few places where developers treat their RCS not only as the repo, but as a tool for communication. And the efficiency of collaboration is truly i
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by JoachimS 13y ago
I'd love to hear some statements from the Norwegian Peace Prize Committee, who in a fit of Obama euphoria gave him the prize during his first presidency.