djmdjm

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by djmdjm 15y ago
> Mac address of network card + current time? you're trolling, right? If not, begin your journey to enlightenment at http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~daw/papers/ddj-netscape.html (15 years old now!), http://www.schneier.com/paper-prngs.pd
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by djmdjm 15y ago
> The code I provided above didn't show it, because the library simply generated it for me. ... and this is another reason why people should use one of the bcrypt() implementations for their language* - the API makes doing the wrong thi
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by djmdjm 15y ago
citation needed
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by djmdjm 15y ago
OTOH rifles are the weapon of choice for spree-killers. Australia had a surprising number of these for such a small country (my father narrowly missed driving through the Hoddle St massacre). I don't think we have had a spree killing of any
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by djmdjm 15y ago
The Queensland police have form for overzealous prosecution. A couple of years ago they arrested and charged a man with publishing child-abuse material after passing on a viral video that had already been shown on national TV: http://www.s
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by djmdjm 15y ago
Dear "archiveteam", I pay by the MB. How do I opt out of your shit? KTHXBYE
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by djmdjm 16y ago
You can opt out using https://encrypted.google.com/ (this has been pointed out a number of times)
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by djmdjm 16y ago
I don't think OpenBSD ever recommended the use of single-DES. All the effort of having development outside the USA was to ensure that OpenBSD supported strong crypto without export encumbrances.
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by djmdjm 16y ago
Actually SSH2 still uses CBC in the vulnerable manner described, since fixing this would require a protocol change. The risk is low because, as you observe, it's not a very practical attack. In OpenSSH we increased the frequency of rekeying
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by djmdjm 16y ago
I might be cheating a little, but http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grovers_algorithm blows my mind.
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by djmdjm 16y ago
Yep. Kind of like Gene Ray, who has been bucking the status quo ...
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by djmdjm 16y ago
"nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded"
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by djmdjm 16y ago
http://www.amazon.com/Food-Cooking-Science-Lore-Kitchen/dp/0... is a good book that discusses culinary science, and it costs a lot less than $450.
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by djmdjm 16y ago
Wireline broadband is limited in many areas by (near-)monopoly providers. It often isn't economic for multiple providers to chase each others' wires into the home. Wireless might be restricted by spectrum licenses, but there are usually a n
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by djmdjm 16y ago
For a start, the approach to wireless seems to be more "wait and see" than "never regulate", since the proposal tasks the GAO with monitoring the market for signs of failure. Wireless seems prima facie likely to be a more vibrant market any
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by djmdjm 16y ago
They should expect a bias, since Wikileaks have stated that some information has been held back deliberately. From http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Afghan_War_Diary,_2004-2010 "We have delayed the release of some 15,000 reports from the total ar
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by djmdjm 16y ago
Maintaining OpenSSH's autoconf scripts over many years now, I have found it best just to discard the pretence that autoconf is in any way consistent and treat configure.ac as a Bourne shell script with some macros on top.
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by djmdjm 16y ago
In this case, I think the egg (autoconf) arrived on the scene well after the chicken (idiotic, gratuitous incompatibilities).
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by djmdjm 16y ago
Clearly autoconf isn't so unremittingly horrible that he doesn't use it in Varnish :) autoconf is a bit of a Faustian bargain though - it promises a quick and easy solution to the labour-intensive and mindlessly boring task of managing all
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by djmdjm 16y ago
Gtalk does have a "sign out of talk" button.