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  1. Re:Hm.... on NIST Updates Random Number Generation Guidelines · · Score: 1

    Lucky for us, Diffie-Helmann requires a random sources on each side. If your RNG is broken and your counter-party's isn't, you're still good.

  2. Re:Bad RNG will make your crypto predictable on NIST Updates Random Number Generation Guidelines · · Score: 1

    It also means that you're allowing an outside source, which is extremely easy to manipulate (a van parked outside your house with a transmitter) to create your random.

  3. Re:Bad RNG will make your crypto predictable on NIST Updates Random Number Generation Guidelines · · Score: 1

    Sweeping statement - not necessarily. Pre-shared keys and all that. It is possible to make good crypto systems without using random. Sorry to be autistic about it.

  4. So the work begins again on NIST Updates Random Number Generation Guidelines · · Score: 2

    To find out where the NSA put the twist.

  5. Wrong setup on Ask Slashdot: Is C++ the Right Tool For This Project? · · Score: 1

    'Cross platform' and 'manage memory usage and disk access at a very granular level' do not readily go together. And not in Java either. Abstract your 'granular access' away in a C (I said 'C', not 'C++') library of your own. Use a lot of #ifdefs. On top of that, build in whatever you want.

  6. Re:It's not a hammer on The US Navy's Warfare Systems Command Just Paid Millions To Stay On Windows XP · · Score: 1

    Oh god. Don't *do* that. The nightmares - they keep on coming back!

  7. Re:It's not like we don't already know on Russian Troops Traced To Ukrainian Battlefields Through Social Media · · Score: 1

    "just make your troops leave their personal devices at home."

    The impression I get is that it is exactly this that all armed forces all over the world are struggling with. A lot. Apparently, you can order a youngster these days to do a lot. But not that they leave their phone at home. Also, bear in mind that when soldiers get to take their own phones, then armies don't have to buy expensive welfare network capabilities.

  8. According to Russia, the West helped stage an undemocratic coup there. And although there have been democratic elections since, this still has a ring of truth to it.

  9. The F117 was taken down with a SAM. Someone had discovered its radar signature when it opened its bomb bay door.

  10. Looked at it. Dismissed it. on Swift: Apple's Biggest Achievement For Coders · · Score: 1

    A new language without support for regex literals is worthless to even consider.

  11. Not much the US can do. on US Tech Giants Ask Obama Not To Compromise Encryption · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Most of the recently proposed crypto algorithms aren't American. The cat is out of the bag - crypto is an academic subject now, and everyone's participating.

  12. Re:Absence?! on How Ready Is IPv6 To Succeed IPv4? · · Score: 1

    Every single source address that a listener outside your network can find. That's how many machines you have. At least. You couldn't find that information from a NATted network.

  13. In my job? on How Much JavaScript Do You Need To Know For an Entry-Level Job? · · Score: 1

    None. But it would be weird if you didn't.

  14. For me, the uninformed on Cable Companies Hate Cord-Cutting, but It's Not Going Away (Video) · · Score: 1

    Of the latest buzzword bingo - what are 'cord cutters'?

  15. Re:Hobbit on How To Die On Mars · · Score: 1

    Fine. Once a week, you get to hold your breath, go through the airlock, and stand on the surface of the planet - naked - for five minutes. That should solve your vitamin D problem.

  16. Re:cover everything with mirrors on Navy's New Laser Weapon: Hype Or Reality? · · Score: 0

    You're at sea. Doesn't sticking the whole thing under water help?

  17. Re:Sudafed on Genetically Engineered Yeast Makes It Possible To Brew Morphine · · Score: 1

    Bollocks. In China maybe. Not in the Western world. And even here, most addicts were, as usual, alcohol addicts.

  18. Re:Rust is putting the cart before the horse on Criticizing the Rust Language, and Why C/C++ Will Never Die · · Score: 2

    "Nobody uses C or C++ because they love the language."

    I take issue with that. I absolutely love C. I also abhor any movement to 'prettify' algol-like languages (python, java), which I consider useless.

  19. Get the bullshit bingo bot out of here! on Criticizing the Rust Language, and Why C/C++ Will Never Die · · Score: 3, Insightful

    People who say 'C/C++' are likely to know neither language.

  20. Re: DNS without DHCP on Why the Journey To IPv6 Is Still the Road Less Traveled · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Per-connection MTU's are a pain. You shouldn't be making that point if you think that routers having a PNAT table is a hack - having state is awful. And IPv6 has other flaws too: some headers fields are unprotected from bit-errors in transit. There is no specification as to how many extension headers I'm allowed to use. Higher layer fragments are completely unrecognisable to stateless concentrators (more so than in IPv4). UDP- and TCP-checksums are not allowed to be all zeroes (which was neat when you provided a better checksum yourself over, you know, fragments, which got ripped out).

    No there's plenty rotten in the state of IPv6. And it's not just because 'interests' ripped things out.

  21. Article runs in circles on How Security Companies Peddle Snake Oil · · Score: 2

    No, we certainly are not all targets of nation states. But there are more potential targets of nation states than that currently actually have proper IT security measures in place. I'm talking about you, waterworks / electricalworks / etc. To say you can 'predict' an attack is to say that you can 'predict' Putin's next move. You can only anticipate statistically. And how do you do that? By using security products to fill in a security plan.

  22. What. The. Hell. on Bolivia Demands Assange Apologize For Deliberately False Leaks To the US · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    What is that Assange guy doing?

  23. Re:XOR is useless on Popular Android Package Uses Just XOR -- and That's Not the Worst Part · · Score: 1

    ? It's quite common to perform a hash in a loop, if only to make checking algorithms slower. But also to prevent rainbow-tabeling. I don't think that the bankruptcy of your former company had anything to do with their password treatment policies...

  24. I don't like going all fark on slashdot, but... on Parents Sue School After Pod Daughter Is Banned From Prom · · Score: 1

    WFTAmIReading.jpg.

  25. So? on Europol Chief Warns About Computer Encryption · · Score: 1

    The cat is out of the bag. Crypto and its application is an academic subject now, with plenty of companies and open-source projects using the fruit of the work. That is to say, for another ten-fifteen years or so. Then, quantum will start taking it all apart. The amateurs will not have the resources to follow there.