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by chengas123 17y ago
thanks for the recommendation. none of us are in the valley. at the moment we're leaning towards NJ since the site is there currently, as well as one of us, and i think the fees are the lowest. also, i should reiterate that it's really a
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9 points by chengas123 17y ago|6 comments
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by chengas123 17y ago
Salts are never public. You're assuming that the salt is obtained along with the hash, which may sometimes but not always be true. However, I did understate the usefulness of this method since I was assuming the attacker doesn't have the
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by chengas123 17y ago
Maybe I'm misunderstanding how the hashes are being cracked, but I was under the impression that this is cycling through all possible inputs, hashing them, and comparing to the given user input. However, I believe the original value is res
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by chengas123 17y ago
It's cool, but not of much use assuming you're trying to crack a properly salted hash.
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by chengas123 17y ago
I want a trackpoint (the red nipple in the middle of IBM laptops) on every keyboard I own.
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by chengas123 17y ago
I agree. Regardless of whether this is legal, it's a horrible investment.
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by chengas123 17y ago
The guy who did this research was probably the best professor I've ever had. He taught a negotiation class in my MBA program and for every single negotiation tactic you could think of, he had a movie clip that demonstrated it. Class was a
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by chengas123 17y ago
I'm not sure I'd use the site anyway, but the biggest thing I see here is that you can't do anything without signing up and there's not enough of a reason given to sign up. I'm not signing up for anything without a compelling reason to do
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by chengas123 17y ago
You should really setup an SSH tunnel to use your home server as a proxy with FoxyProxy: http://lifehacker.com/software/ssh/geek-to-live--encrypt-you...
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by chengas123 17y ago
If going with the iPhone/Android app what would your pricing strategy be? Charge more seemed to be a popular answer for a desktop app. Does this still hold with the online market place that allows users to more easily comparison shop?
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by chengas123 17y ago
They're pretty nice using Guido van Rossum's rietveld: http://code.google.com/p/rietveld/
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by chengas123 17y ago
I really like the idea, but don't use Winamp. Most of the things along this line that I've tried are pretty bad, so I'm not sure I'm willing to download two pieces of software to see if this one is different. What about an online service