anologwintermut

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by anologwintermut 9y ago
I happen to like guns and shooting. It's a good point to understand the appeal of guns and also "the other side." But there is a point you are leaving out that comes up if you talk to anyone who does treat firearms seriously:
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by anologwintermut 11y ago
Instead of using the NIST recommended curve points it uses self-generated basis points and then takes the output as an input to FIPS/ANSI X.9.31 PRNG, which is the random number generator used in ScreenOS cryptographic operations.&quot
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by anologwintermut 11y ago
Except Chrome, which on every laptop I've ever used seems to decrease battery life by about a 1/3rd compared to Safari and is always marked as using significant power. (Currently 10.9.5 with chrome 44 on a 2014 macbook air, but I&
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by anologwintermut 11y ago
I'm 99% certain they meant Free RTOS[0] and someone just misheard. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeRTOS
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by anologwintermut 11y ago
The usual distance bounding protocols only need a nano-second accurate timer on one device called the verifier. For example https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/sec10/tech/full_papers/R... Cool tri
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by anologwintermut 11y ago
The timer could be in the car. Protocol looks like fob pings car, car challenges fob, fob responds.
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by anologwintermut 12y ago
so ORAM with this on top of it ?
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by anologwintermut 12y ago
Not sure how they do it, but it has been done before as a research project http://css.csail.mit.edu/cryptdb/ . One of the tricks it uses(though by no means the only) is to do a binary search in an index, it actually h
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by anologwintermut 12y ago
It might be true, but how usefulness is it when dealing with society as a whole?. For the Puttman, it probably kicks in, but for a whole field like e.g. programing/computer science/IT, it almost certainly doesn't for the sim
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by anologwintermut 12y ago
Summers's point was about the distribution at the extremes, not the average. He was addressing the lack of professors in STEM at places like Harvard which manifestly select for the far end of the bell curve. Right, wrong, or otherwise,
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by anologwintermut 12y ago
Sure. Lets suppose it actually was a valid defense. But what does that have to do with going through the Facebook and personal email of individual employees to know who to target. That was done up close, in personal, by hand. By any definit
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by anologwintermut 12y ago
So I may have missed the details. I thought we knew they hacked Belgacom, but no one mentioned going through employee's personal email and social networks (though in light of this, we can assume they did). If they did mention it and
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by anologwintermut 12y ago
Because they were useful for targeted surveillance? Not that I agree with the means or the scope, but there's an above board explanation for the desire to get the keys . Suppose you have a handful of phones in Pakistan or Iran you need
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by anologwintermut 12y ago
The SIM card bit is actually I think a distraction. The real issue should be the means: the NSA/GCHQ intentionally targeted innocent/non government affiliated people's personal email and social networking. That's differe
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by anologwintermut 12y ago
Personally, the biggest take away to this is the invasive targeting of completely innocent and ordinary people simply as a means to get access to things the NSA needed (sim Card keys). We have concrete evidence they nailed peoples person
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by anologwintermut 12y ago
Is one of /the main prng on FreeBSD actually arc4random? I.e. RC4?
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by anologwintermut 12y ago
The notation that a debate on the rules of digital warfare will do anything is questionable. Arms control limitations (SALT,START), the hague convention, etc, work because there are means of verifying countries adhere to what they agree on
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by anologwintermut 12y ago
Not this paper again. It can't be used for cryptographic usage and the title(which is the original title of the paper) is completely misleeading. The device you're authenticating must have the secret you're authenticating w
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by anologwintermut 12y ago
After you have tenure and a couple of grad students who believe in "A PhD is one of the few opportunities in academia to do true" ...
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by anologwintermut 12y ago
People being more social doesn't necessarily mean it was because the women were more social. It could simply be people were more social because it was a more diverse environment ( I at least can get bored of talking to the same people
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by anologwintermut 12y ago
There aren't. Nacl certainly is credible. But it isn't (at least last time I looked) portable. As I understand this is because of a bunch of x86 assembly meant to generate very fast and constant time crypto code. This is Bernstei
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by anologwintermut 12y ago
It's a terrible piece of self reflection in that case. His thesis is his stuff never got adopted because of the NSA? DJB is very smart, but he doesn't necessarily play well with others (as tptacek alluded to) and sometimes does s
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by anologwintermut 12y ago
The article quotes the judge as saying" "Defendant could have established such a personal privacy interest by submitting a sworn statement that could not be offered against him at trial as evidence of his guilt
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by anologwintermut 12y ago
Remote controlled drones have limitations due to electronic warfare/jamming (not to mention security, see the one the US lost in Iran). There's also an issue with lag. Actually autonomous ones are as far as I know only good for
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by anologwintermut 12y ago
No, no it doesn't. It's a perfectly valid answer (given appropriate evidence). The point is it's an answer to rebut data and it's one that it self requires data. In no way does it stand as an argument that we should not
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by anologwintermut 12y ago
Because if there are large systemic racial inequalities (not that I think employment at Google is worthy of the title, compared to things like education and incarceration rates), then we manifestly aren't in a post racial society. Giv
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by anologwintermut 12y ago
does that hold as well if you control for undergraduate/graduate major?
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by anologwintermut 12y ago
True. On the other hand, the military may need to be able to reboot the thing remotely/automatically, in which case it's possible they don't want to risk having to send the keys first.
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by anologwintermut 12y ago
Depends entirely on why and how it was encrypted. If we are talking about the flight control software, the airplane must(edit,not necessarily) have the keys to boot clearly. If we are talking about recorded data, it's less clear. The
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by anologwintermut 12y ago
Hopefully zero, since there's a history of Swiss companies knowingly backdooring products. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_AG#Back-doored_machines

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