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Theoretical definitions for crypto wannabes(unhandledexpression.com)
3 points by geal 13y ago|0 comments
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by geal 13y ago
Ok, so. When you need to write a load balancer and want to test different languages for the task, you don't do a benchmark like that one. Writing a "ping-pong"? And not using the same client to test both servers? It would not
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by geal 13y ago
Homomorphic encryption is interesting from a business standpoint (think: manipulating credit card numbers without being able to read them). For anonymization systems, care must be taken: being able to manipulate encrypted data could very we
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"Practical" post quantum signature algorithms(imperialviolet.org)
2 points by geal 13y ago|0 comments
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Group messaging crypto and the CAP theorem(unhandledexpression.com)
3 points by geal 13y ago|0 comments
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by geal 13y ago
Encryption provides a good way to keep secrets. This has nothing to do with privacy. Privacy is minding my own business without anyone watching me or judging me. If you need to rely on encryption to protect your privacy, then you have very
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by geal 13y ago
So many ideas :) I have found that e-book writing is a nice way to get a product out of consulting engagement: 1- get a mission on an exotic platform or technology 2- read a lot about the subject, write your own documentation, format it nic
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by geal 13y ago
I have not said it's awesome, I just said it is decentralized :) How will your system cope with the augmentation of transactions? I see you use a consensus based system like Bitcoin, and these tend to take more and more time to converg
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by geal 13y ago
Stomach breathing is used by musicians, to get enough air to maintain the notes. It is not necessarily easy to start breathing like that, because the natural feeling is that your lungs are more filled with chest breathing. It is wrong, thou
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by geal 13y ago
Ugly can also mean that you care to do the right thing for customers. I have seen pieces of code that were beautiful at first, but had to be tweaked in horrible ways to accomodate all the quirks of human interaction. Yes, the code is ugly,
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by geal 13y ago
That's awesome! I have played a lot with Scala and Android, and type safety, options, futures really improved the development on Android (less code, less bugs). I would be curious to try Haskell on that platform.
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by geal 13y ago
One tip: make it dead easy to set up. Look at the Text Secure app: you can first pair with just a click, and everything is handled automatically through SMS. Nothing to type. The verification part is a bit more involved, but easy to do with
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by geal 13y ago
It's nice to see that they have a sane configuration (even though they should disable RC4 nowadays). They should implement HSTS, though. It is very easy to do (just a HTTP header to set).
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by geal 13y ago
So, if I understand correctly, I can test if someone received a specific email just by testing the tracking link with known email addresses? Fun!
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by geal 13y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the article begins by saying that a centralized system is bad, because you must use it to interact with the system's clients. Then it goes on to say "it would be awesome if everybody was using Rip
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by geal 13y ago
Break and continue are only an issue if you have large loop blocks. By separating the code in lots of small meaningful functions, break and continue will not reduce readability, and the whole code will be more developer friendly.
77.
Create a new language with a monadic parser combinator written in PHP(geal.github.io)
2 points by geal 13y ago|1 comments
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by geal 13y ago
or emojis, that would be cool!
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by geal 13y ago
Well, you could try to improve the language by hacking on the parser. That would be quite easy to do :)
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by geal 13y ago
It calls scripts on the server side, and generates a UI from the results. Runnng the scripts with this app will be faster and easier because you don't need to type (and inmost of the free apps done naively,some requests are done for ev
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by geal 13y ago
I plan to open source the app, once it is a bit well known. In the meantime, you can easily observe what the application does by replacing the shell on the server side. The database uses SQLCipher, which is open source, and for SSH, I used
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Pilot SSH is now available on Android(pilotssh.com)
13 points by geal 13y ago|4 comments
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by geal 13y ago
From what I see: * everything is done server side -> trust issues * no encryption, just indexed by a hash -> that means the messages are not store encrypted on the server I would recommend people stay away from your solution, and inst
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by geal 13y ago
These are different platforms: * UI design is a lot easier on iOS if you use XCode's interactive designer. Doing it on Android with Eclipse's designer is painful, but I expect that Android Studio will make that easier. * UI design
85.
by geal 13y ago
From the point of view of the freelance worker, gun.io has been amazing. Interesting work and very nice clients!
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by geal 13y ago
Saying that using random words is better than using a string of unrelated characters assumes that password crackers don't know how to combine words. There are about 180000 words in English (but don't assume everybody knows 180000 words). Th
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by geal 13y ago
Easy to see: despite all the whiners and the bad reputation, you can find good people to work with in France.
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by geal 14y ago
It's nice to see they support Python now :) It is already really nice for Scala apps.
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by geal 14y ago
Well, that article was for french people at the beginning, and cool kids don't look for work on job boards, because they are occupied by some horrible consulting companies (that is VERY specific to France). But it still applies in the rest
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My ideal job posting(unhandledexpression.com)
5 points by geal 14y ago|3 comments

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