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Designing Crypto Primitives Secure Against Rubber Hose Attacks(usenix.org)
56 points by zvrba 12y ago|24 comments
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by zvrba 12y ago
Page 36: "Windows is currently the most secure mainstream OS. I mean, we can’t stand _using_ it, but that doesn’t change the facts. The kernel is golden, the userland protections are stellar, and the user experience is somewhere betwee
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Why Clouds Give Me a Case of the Vapors(berghel.net)
1 points by zvrba 12y ago|0 comments
544.
by zvrba 12y ago
And the slides cite a paper from 1977: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=321999 Nice to see that somebody knows how to dig through history.
545.
by zvrba 12y ago
He forgot one: modifying & using a variable between sequence points (e.g., i = i++ + i++;). EDIT: not forgot, but only mentioned briefly at the end.
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The data on diversity(cacm.acm.org)
6 points by zvrba 12y ago|0 comments
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by zvrba 12y ago
> You can already use the special checked types for arithmetic on a case-by-case basis if you'd like overflow checking. Already this is a HUGE improvement over C. Is it allowed to silently mix checked and unchecked integers?
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by zvrba 12y ago
It was iAPX 432. IIRC, its main problem was that it was ahead of its time. It was complex, and the manufacturing process was not developed enough, so it had to be manufactured as three separate chips. This made motherboards more complex,
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by zvrba 12y ago
Take a look at dss from AT&T AST tools: http://www2.research.att.com/~astopen/dss/dss.html http://www2.research.att.com/~astopen/publications/dss-2004....
550.
by zvrba 12y ago
Does there not yet exist a debugger which runs as a hypervisor?
551.
by zvrba 12y ago
Um. From what I remember of having learned about capacitors in a basic physics course a long time ago, the net charge of the capacitor is always the same. When voltage is applied to a capacitor, it generates an electric field between the pl
552.
by zvrba 12y ago
> Windows? Wasn't really even an option... until 20 years later. Which 'Windows'? Before Windows 2000, there was Windows and Windows NT, the former being a more-or-less just a shell running on top of DOS.
553.
by zvrba 12y ago
Ah! Imagine my pleasant surprise when I discovered that ConTeXt has built-in features that you need a bunch of different LaTeX packages for. It was painless to, for example, flow text around figures. The bad thing is... academic journals an
554.
by zvrba 12y ago
Compiler feature matrix: http://perl6.org/compilers/features Note that there is also a JVM target. This is exciting!
555.
by zvrba 12y ago
While using C automatically shields you from timing attacks and buys you portability? Right. It is not even supported on 64-bit Windows yet. (I'm not saying that there's a need to support 64-bit Windows; I'm just demonstratin
556.
by zvrba 12y ago
Could all the downvoters explain why this isn't or shouldn't be a genuine concern? I know that GnuPG is not a network server, but there's a still lot of potential for various exploits in format parsers, etc.
557.
by zvrba 12y ago
Another large codebase in C that deals with security. How thoroughly has it been audited and tested for bugs? Should we soon expect a new "Heartbleed"? Why or why not?
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by zvrba 12y ago
> There are lots of curious questions here, like why are there more defects in Erlang and Java than Perl and Ruby? Maybe because Erlang and Java are used for projects of higher complexity (larger scope, more interacting components, etc.)
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by zvrba 12y ago
> A smartphone can go 48 hours if you turn off all the radios too. My Lumia 1520 goes for longer than 48 hours, with all the radios ON.
560.
by zvrba 12y ago
Ocaml: the practical and the ugly one. (I hate Ocaml's syntax mainly due to the noise of let ... in clauses)
561.
by zvrba 12y ago
Does LastPass work with IE enhanced protected mode yet?
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by zvrba 12y ago
> Shells work just fine with Emacs on Windows Except they don't. File-name completion replaced all backslashes with forward slashes, thus breaking cmd.exe's built-in commands. I reported a bug; it started a short discussion; i
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by zvrba 12y ago
> This is exactly why sync is not a commodity. Dropbox is the very best at what they do, The very best? I use OneDrive across all of my Windows machines and I don't even notice it exists; never had any problems. I just access all my
564.
by zvrba 12y ago
"There's an interesting benefit you can get from using such a powerful language as a version of Lisp as your primary extensibility language. You can implement other languages by translating them into your primary language." T
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by zvrba 12y ago
> GF32 addition in GF2 basically looks like a giant ripple-carry-adder. I tried to implement addition in GF32 through Kogge-Stone adder because the dependency chain has length 5 instead of 32. No success. The intermediate variables got s
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by zvrba 12y ago
I have looked at the PDF manual linked to from the homepage. If that PDF is produced bye Sile itself, I'm not impressed because the rendered text looks crowded. Perhaps the choice of the font is at fault, perhaps the engine lacks TeX&#
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by zvrba 12y ago
> While 69 is fairly young, his death does not appear to be tragic in the sense of unfulfilled ambitions. My comment was from the perspective of course of life. After retirement, he had only 5 years to pursue "his passions of outdoo
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by zvrba 12y ago
An interesting bit of trivia about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Outer_Space : The film's title was the inspiration for the name of Bell Labs' successor to the Unix operating system.
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by zvrba 12y ago
OT, but: the guy retired in 2000. and died in 2005. That's sad :(
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by zvrba 12y ago
> Architecturally, it would merely be a matter of taking the register selection bits Except these do not exist for individual SIMD lanes; that's why you have permutation instructions. Treating individual lanes as registers would inc

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