throwaway838475

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   by throwaway838475 7y ago

   The US has the highest real incarceration per capita on the planet except Seychelles, mostly for nonviolent crimes that were instituted (War on Drugs) by Nixon to attack the poor, minorities and other “opponents.” Also consider the number o
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   by throwaway838475 7y ago

   Almost. That construction is still vulnerable to chosen input attacks without inner and outer padding, which is basically rediscovering HMAC, which also isn’t suitable for storing passwords. Don’t roll your own crypto if you don’t know what
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   by throwaway838475 7y ago

   I always shake my head when performance is touted for new functions/constructions. It’s more important to minimize the costs of legitimate use while maximizing the costs of software and hardware attacks. Minimizing the former inevitabl
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   by throwaway838475 7y ago

   The correct term is PBKDF. And more succinctly: crypto hash fn != authenticated hash fn (like HMAC constructions) != PBKDF
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   by throwaway838475 7y ago

   The whole modality of a single package in a single configuration at a single version is broken and dead dependency-hell of yesteryear. Still, ports and packages collections mechanically and unthinkingly continue this failed and broken modal