I remember jumping thru hoops to get it to compile and run on my Sun workstations. Browsed the whole damned web in about 5 minutes, since there were only a handful of public sites. Went back to using TinyFugue and hanging out with my pals in LambdaMOO.
If in doubt, research Alan Turing, what he did, how his team basically won WWII by besting enigma.
Some years ago, people made fun of federal munitions export restrictions by printing simple encryption/decryption code on Tshirts. We were the enlightened, chuckling at how darn near impossible it would be to truly ensure encryption technologies didn't spread around like wildfire.
Crypto DID spread like wildfire - the federal government's regulations couldn't stop it. Good encryption's everywhere now. (well, relatively good, mostly unbroken, but you never know what some genius will figure out tomorrow)
Guns are everywhere too. Just as the law reasonably disallows individuals from waving around munitions and discharging them and such in public - it can disallow individuals from abusing wartime-level encryption. Just as arms vendors are regulated (albiet somewhat poorly) - encryption providers may very well be regulated at some point.
As best I understand the law, in the U.S. you do not have the right to board an international flight carrying a device with military-grade encrypted data on it. It's hard, darn near impossible, for them to be able to assess this - but it doesn't mean you're not doing something illegal if you do it.
Pure and simple - the fact that the data was encrypted at a given strength makes you dangerous. You become a criminal, because of what you are doing and how you are using technology.
This is not new, nor is it anything to get outraged about. It's simply something you need to know, about the technology you're using. Just as you're not free to drive your car around in any manner you wish (over curbs, running lights, hitting people/things), you're not free to abuse encryption technology in various ways either. Get used to it.
This is a non-argument. How can an algorithm to-be-designed be "known" today?
Worse, you give no supporting evidence. The corporations driving this technology have simply limited their investments - typical "bang for the buck" thinking.
Not knowing a THING about font technology (but fully understanding mucho math) I can see how vector analysis of "similarity" could be calculated using the font's vectors and the vectors resultant from a sort of "edge detection" on the pixels intersecting a given character at a given pixel size / font size combination.
We can snarf the resultant pixels from all that human-generated hinting and tweak the vectors till they match (for the record, that is another poster's idea)... as part of "initializing" the font for that pixelsize.
...Just an idea - but at least it's one with a positive outlook.
[Dontcha just HATE it when people say it can't be done? You KNOW it will be, someday soon!]
-Paul Reiber Co-Founder & CTO, Open Country We Sell Free Software!
C:\bill\gates\make\money> cd \bill\gates\innovation
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I remember jumping thru hoops to get it to compile and run on my Sun workstations.
Browsed the whole damned web in about 5 minutes, since there were only a handful of public sites.
Went back to using TinyFugue and hanging out with my pals in LambdaMOO.
If in doubt, research Alan Turing, what he did, how his team basically won WWII by besting enigma.
Some years ago, people made fun of federal munitions export restrictions by printing simple encryption/decryption code on Tshirts. We were the enlightened, chuckling at how darn near impossible it would be to truly ensure encryption technologies didn't spread around like wildfire.
Crypto DID spread like wildfire - the federal government's regulations couldn't stop it. Good encryption's everywhere now. (well, relatively good, mostly unbroken, but you never know what some genius will figure out tomorrow)
Guns are everywhere too. Just as the law reasonably disallows individuals from waving around munitions and discharging them and such in public - it can disallow individuals from abusing wartime-level encryption. Just as arms vendors are regulated (albiet somewhat poorly) - encryption providers may very well be regulated at some point.
As best I understand the law, in the U.S. you do not have the right to board an international flight carrying a device with military-grade encrypted data on it. It's hard, darn near impossible, for them to be able to assess this - but it doesn't mean you're not doing something illegal if you do it.
Pure and simple - the fact that the data was encrypted at a given strength makes you dangerous. You become a criminal, because of what you are doing and how you are using technology.
This is not new, nor is it anything to get outraged about. It's simply something you need to know, about the technology you're using. Just as you're not free to drive your car around in any manner you wish (over curbs, running lights, hitting people/things), you're not free to abuse encryption technology in various ways either. Get used to it.
https://www.quora.com/lego_tidbits/Lego-Mindstorms-EV3-More-Info
Worse, you give no supporting evidence. The corporations driving this technology have simply limited their investments - typical "bang for the buck" thinking.
Not knowing a THING about font technology (but fully understanding mucho math) I can see how vector analysis of "similarity" could be calculated using the font's vectors and the vectors resultant from a sort of "edge detection" on the pixels intersecting a given character at a given pixel size / font size combination.
We can snarf the resultant pixels from all that human-generated hinting and tweak the vectors till they match (for the record, that is another poster's idea) ... as part of "initializing" the font for that pixelsize.
[Dontcha just HATE it when people say it can't be done? You KNOW it will be, someday soon!]
-Paul Reiber
Co-Founder & CTO, Open Country
We Sell Free Software!
C:\bill\gates\make\money> cd \bill\gates\innovation
Yeah, there have got to be a bunch of torqued off survivalists out there going "What? No major cities went boom? Jeesh... how anticlimactic..."