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by avadodin 1y ago
Re-reading tfm, it definitely had an answer to my dumb question(basically the same as any regular C pointer), but I still get the feeling that the explanations make jumps that may be obvious to you but absolutely not to me. I sort of get a
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by avadodin 1y ago
The paper that triggered this thread "breaking" PCG sees it as potentially in the same class of issues as using RANDU. > our results […] do mean that [PCG']s output has detectable properties. Whether these properties may a
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by avadodin 1y ago
Forgive me for not putting in the effort this deserves, but the description of pointers in this thread reads a lot like the current description of Fil-C pointers from the main site. What is the 64-bit-presenting representation of pointers i
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by avadodin 1y ago
Win2k with WSL without systemd would be so kino
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by avadodin 1y ago
Unless you're thinking of one of the other Swiss languages, Swiss German is actually a variety of Hochdeutsch. Historically, Germany used to be divided into countless small fiefdoms and each of them used to speak unique barely intellig
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by avadodin 1y ago
This is too deep to reply but if a bit is dependent on the value of a bit a couple bytes back then it is not acting randomly. It's not about security. I hope you can agree that if every time there is a treasure chest to the left of a d
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by avadodin 1y ago
Defaulting to a CSPRNG pre-seeded with system randomness is not a bad choice per se(especially given many users don't know they need one) but current ones are much slower than the RNGs we are discussing. If you're going to provide
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by avadodin 1y ago
Sorry for misrepresenting it a bit. The renaming and the having the constant be a variable confused me when skimming for the parts that I was looking for. So, the state is 128 or 256 for the versions presented and 64 for msws16. I don'
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by avadodin 1y ago
CSPRNGs have all of the desirable properties for the output. All else being equal, I don't think it is possible for a trivially reversible generator to have better statistical properties than a generator whose output behaves more like
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by avadodin 1y ago
That paper doesn't mention how many rounds it passed on the statistical tests, just that they tested 25000 seeds. They also don't definitely state a period but 2^64 with 192 or 384 bits of state is not that impressive. Furthermore
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by avadodin 1y ago
bummer nice overview article btw backdoors in the supply chain are always hard to avoid but if it can't even protect against third-party attackers including any of the hardware attached what's the point
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Fixed point would be hell trying to keep track of the ranges. Maybe Posits or LNSs.
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SEV and CC in general looks interesting seeing the slides. I hadn't heard of it yet. Someone more knowledgeable than me will say if these encrypted VMs are also protected from bugged modules within the SoC or on the bus besides being p