cassonmars

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by cassonmars 18d ago
They can be, but unfortunately the org has threatened to revoke official regional burn status unless they followed all the same rules, in particular, that children be allowed. There used to be some leeway on that, and there were really wond
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by cassonmars 1mo ago
Let's opt for the simplest possible way to describe this. A good number of the proposals (in particular, the proposals that actually got close to being chosen), are based on lattice constructions. NTRU's underlying construction ha
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by cassonmars 1mo ago
Are you a cryptographer? I am. I literally hold six patents around secure key generation and management. I stand by DJB's points.
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by cassonmars 1mo ago
because the NSA has never surreptitiously pushed bad standards they used to exploit before /s
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by cassonmars 2mo ago
> IMO the penalties for corruption in public service jobs (all the way to the top!) should also be outsized to match the damage it does to society. Tough to do when those who write the laws are a part of the problem. What do you suggest
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by cassonmars 2mo ago
Your argument would be far more charitable if NIST had not already been caught pushing a broken standard at the behest of the NSA before. DJB might be combative and somewhat caustic, but the one thing he's never been, given enough time
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by cassonmars 3mo ago
The problem with attempting to provide universal healthcare in the united states is that, despite health professionals attesting to the necessity and validity of certain health related topics, the current administration in particular is ver
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by cassonmars 3mo ago
This feels like a strange take to me. With the internet, it has never been easier for people anywhere in the (connected) world to find an audience, which we've seen to great and detrimental effects. Prior to this, reaching widespread a
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by cassonmars 4mo ago
Save a click: no public information exists yet.
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by cassonmars 4mo ago
For a basic CRDT set, merge rules have to have some kind of temporality basis in the messages such that commutativity is preserved. usually it's a timestamp, sometimes it's an unforgeable value like a hash, e.g. A: { "prev_ha
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by cassonmars 5mo ago
based
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by cassonmars 5mo ago
As you are someone building cryptographic libraries used by people all over the world, which includes those who might be seen as "enemies" by the organization in question, this is not a gradient — it's quite binary in nature.
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by cassonmars 5mo ago
I genuinely do not understand how someone working in the capacity that you do, for things that matter universally for people, can contend that an organization who is intentionally engaging in NOBUS backdoors can be remotely trusted at all.
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by cassonmars 6mo ago
It's insane to me that Stripe cancels accounts when they get used for card testing. I get that it's because the onus would be on them otherwise, but the problem is that the onus is on anyone but the card companies in the first pla
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by cassonmars 6mo ago
How do you propose fixing the corruption?
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by cassonmars 6mo ago
PFS is valuable largely in stable, small groups that rarely change shape or association. PFS in an open, freely-associable environment is far more complicated when you move beyond even the smallest of group sizes. Realistically, once the gr
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by cassonmars 6mo ago
You can if the manufacturer has a track record that refutes the notion, and especially if they have verifiable hardware matching publicly disclosed circuit designs. But this is Intel, with their track record, I wouldn't trust it even i
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by cassonmars 7mo ago
Yes!
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by cassonmars 7mo ago
It's simple. Don't comply. Software engineers, despite not having the same requirement of mechanical engineers, should uphold the ethical obligations of their craft. This law is harmful. Given the requirement of compelled speech,
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by cassonmars 7mo ago
This is funny as most Michelin star chefs I've had the luxury of knowing love fast food
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by cassonmars 7mo ago
And Cluely
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by cassonmars 8mo ago
I had the same confusion reading this – what kind of go-based webservice framework can you discretely deploy new handlers without restarts/redeploys? Would be a really awesome thing to have!
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by cassonmars 9mo ago
or you're working in embedded systems, machine learning, cryptography, or any other specialized field where being clever is very important
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by cassonmars 9mo ago
You would likely enjoy Isaac Asimov's "Profession": https://www.abelard.org/asimov.php
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by cassonmars 9mo ago
The hard part _includes_ the crypto and the sandboxing. Short of playing security theater games like "chuck it in a TEE", the moment your data needs any kind of processing, or possesses relationships with other users data (or thei
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by cassonmars 11mo ago
With things like kpatch you can even update the kernel without a reboot
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by cassonmars 11mo ago
XSLT is great, but its core problem is that the tooling is awful. And a lot of this has to do with the primary author of the XSLT specification, keeping a proprietary (and expensive) library as the main library that implements the ungodly t
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by cassonmars 1y ago
There's different proof constructions, but many are depending on recursive SNARKs. You basically have an execution harness prover (proves that the block of VM instructions and inputs were correct in producing the output), and then a fo
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by cassonmars 1y ago
Does YC ever intend to revisit doing remote batches again? There's many founders in the country who are just as driven and motivated, but have real-world situations that cannot allow uprooting themselves for several months, two very co
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by cassonmars 1y ago
> Try mentally taking apart a car. Can you point to the component that supplies the transportation functionality? Transportation, in agile terms, isn't a feature or primary function – it's an epic. I agree with the conclusion t

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