cipher_314159

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by cipher_314159 6y ago
They won't stop using strong encryption. The big national security issue is not a break of government encryption; it's a break on civilian encryption. Consider a foreign adversary with the ability to break encryption used by banks
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by cipher_314159 6y ago
I've been better. I just lost my drivers license due to a medical issue (my "controlled" epilepsy ain't so much any more). My partner left for a six-week trip recently. I'm working from home because my office still
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by cipher_314159 6y ago
From what I understand: tech, mission, and tickets. Say what you want, the NSA probably has some of the most interesting tech problems you'll encounter. Part of that is due to the unique job that they do-- by definition, they're d
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by cipher_314159 6y ago
Sort of depends on how you look at it. A shitty, misconfigured install of MySQL on an OpenBSD box won't automatically become secure. And the default install is pretty spartan-- you're not likely to use an OpenBSD machine without i
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by cipher_314159 6y ago
Oh, there are definitely better ways to de-bias; the read-check-discard construction is meant as a math example, not practical advice. Most of the popular PRNG constructions (for instance, anything in SP800-90A) will integrate things in a m
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by cipher_314159 6y ago
I suppose I should have made it explicit that this construction relies on the unpredictability of SINGLE-bit reads. I had actually considered some wording about that and the independence of each sample, but figured I'd sound pedantic.
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by cipher_314159 6y ago
A couple of considerations: Regarding the hostname thing, the NISP SP800-90Ar1 specs for PRNGs include "personalization strings" as an optional part of the initialization. Lots of other systems have similar parameters. The fundame
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by cipher_314159 7y ago
Right? > In effect, Romu generators are infinitely fast when inlined. What the hell does "infinitely fast" even MEAN in this context? They can be parallelized easily? The computational cost amortizes well? That it literally req
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by cipher_314159 7y ago
For a lot of folks with epilepsy, this is nothing new. Plenty of medications that treat epilepsy are known to induce changes in mood, mental state, etc. Probably the biggest one is levetiracetam (also known as Keppra). If you read the warni
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by cipher_314159 7y ago
> 10 years from now, it might be as good as plain text. I created an account just to chime in on this. In short: horseshit. Look, cryptology is a tricky field, but when it comes to standards development (especially OPEN standards develop