gperciva

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   by gperciva 5y ago

   > Has anyone made an interface to tarsnap's tarball dedup code? Tarsnap's deduplication code is not available under an open-source license.
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   by gperciva 5y ago

   Yes. For the curious, https://github.com/Tarsnap/tarsnap/graphs/contributors
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   by gperciva 5y ago

   Do you normally hire high school students at your company?
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   by gperciva 5y ago

   Wow, that's much more technically advanced than I was as a teenager! Way to go! To print progress with tarsnap 1.0.39, send it a SIGUSR1 or SIGINFO. On FreeBSD, you can do this by pressing ctrl-t. On Linux, you have to use the unfor
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   by gperciva 6y ago

   The algorithm itself takes three cost&memory values N, r, p, and if you're calling the `crypto_scrypt()` function in C or C++ as a KDF you need to specify those. The command-line binary generally takes "max time" and &quo
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   by gperciva 6y ago

   BTW, we released scrypt 1.3.1 yesterday: http://mail.tarsnap.com/scrypt/msg00268.html Main page, including the signed tarball: http://www.tarsnap.com/scrypt.html