Is "Applied Cryptography" the same book as the "Handbook on Applied Cryptography" that was posted on/. a couple of months ago. I am on chapter 5 of online version, and would hate to start all over again with this "Hands-on hands-down AC"
No. The former is by Schneier, the latter by Menezes et al., and is somewhat more mathematical. Both are very good, but unless you have good maths, the former is more accessible, and not so much hard work. Conversely, if you can handle the latter, the maths in the former are easy. Schneier's book is more chatty in style, though, and has more general material accompanying the specific crypto stuff.
you can look forward to your name being recorded with the FBI when you visit the local library to check this book out along with a copy of 'the catcher in the rye'
Hmmm, maybe the PATRIOT Act is a ploy by authors to make sure we BUY their books (with cash, natch...), instead of checking 'em out from libraries...
It's probably bad form to be FPer to one's own review, but just to let you know there is an oopsie in my review concerning experts. A paragraph got lost (my fault). Schneier and Ferguson start their chapter with the warning about self-proclaimed experts I mention, but they realldo do recommend using experts: just be careful that they really ARE experts, not flim-flam artists.
The whole system needs change so that people don't have to take out such defensive measures.
I just finished reading Practical Cryptographyby Niels Ferguson and Bruce Schneier, and in the back there is a brief chapter about software patents. These comments are in a crypto book, but are addressed to software patents in general.
Among the choice comments are:
Our current patent system is completely out of control. At best, patents are a necessary evil. At worst, they are an entirely legal form of fraud and blackmail.
We think that the IT industry would be better off without patents than with patents.
[t]he current system is simply not working.
The patent system won't be fixed, because there is simply no political gain to be made in this aread.
All this is, as most people agree, true, but Schneier and Ferguson seem to think that it's something that we have to live with. Money talks, they say, and "There is, of course, onne group of people that consistently benefits from the patent system: the lawyers. No prizes for guessing which professional group claims that the current system is workable, or even good."
Sad, but there you go.
BTW, the book is truly outstanding, and fills a huge gap in the literature of crypto: watch this space...
From the point of view of serious corporate customers, $US100,000 can be a great big bargain. I think I'll keep my magnetic drives and spend my $999,900 on something else.
The research is funded by a $2 million grant from the Advanced Technology Program of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, a government agency.
So the government is funding commercial companies (Cinea, Sarnoft) to come up with a technology to help protect the profits of other commercial companies? Not entirely unexpected, I suppose...
decide to change carriers, you also have to acquire a new phone as well as a new number.
You mean 'phone portability like that which has been available in the UK and Europe for years? I've been using GSM 'phones for seven years at least in the UK, and NEVER had a locked 'phone? Want to change carriers? Just swap the SIM card (note: this has not always been true for all carriers, but *I* personally have never had a locked 'phone). My 'phones that I now use in the US have all been bought in the UK, and cheaper than identical models in the US, too. It's not many gadgets you can say that about, and is a sure sign that a cartel is operating in the US...
From the title, you would think there is some technical flaw in palladium, but the article just goes on about some thing about not having control of your PC etc...
No, I wouldn't. It says "Cryptographers Find Fault With Palladium". To me that means that they perceive a problem with it, since "to find fault" is a very common idiom for "to criticise".
If the title had been "Cryptographers Discover Flaw In Palladium", that would have been misleading...
Like an operating system is not a piece of software on which a business depends on?
No, not in the same way that a database is, since an OS is not (usually) a repository of persistent data. A company can stand the repeated crashing of an OS if the persistent data required to do business are preserved across crashes. It doesn't matter how long an OS stays up if the business's persistent data are not being preserved by the database.
Excuse me, sir. Seeing as how the VP is such a VIP shouldn't we keep the PC on the QT 'cause if it leaks to the VC he could end up an MIA, and then we'd all be put on KP
...TaxACT. It is available in a number of different versions, and carries a guarantee that if you are charged penalties or too much tax as a result of a TaACT error, the company will refund everything. They claim that it is the only software with this guarantee.
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C'mon, "Firebird"? Come up with something better, all of you!
But it's the US way: think up something macho-sounding, and get some guy with a gravelly voice to growl it out during commercial breaks on Fox...
Is "Applied Cryptography" the same book as the "Handbook on Applied Cryptography" that was posted on /. a couple of months ago. I am on chapter 5 of online version, and would hate to start all over again with this "Hands-on hands-down AC"
No. The former is by Schneier, the latter by Menezes et al., and is somewhat more mathematical. Both are very good, but unless you have good maths, the former is more accessible, and not so much hard work. Conversely, if you can handle the latter, the maths in the former are easy. Schneier's book is more chatty in style, though, and has more general material accompanying the specific crypto stuff.
still forcing them to use their supper computers
I've just calculated that tonight "we're havin' ribs!"
you can look forward to your name being recorded with the FBI when you visit the local library to check this book out along with a copy of 'the catcher in the rye'
Hmmm, maybe the PATRIOT Act is a ploy by authors to make sure we BUY their books (with cash, natch...), instead of checking 'em out from libraries...
It's probably bad form to be FPer to one's own review, but just to let you know there is an oopsie in my review concerning experts. A paragraph got lost (my fault). Schneier and Ferguson start their chapter with the warning about self-proclaimed experts I mention, but they realldo do recommend using experts: just be careful that they really ARE experts, not flim-flam artists.
Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf (aka Baghdad Bob). He's always telling us that:
"Loose wieght in just 2 weeks"
He was misquoted: he actually said "Lose Kuweight in two weeks...
Suggestions for an icon, anyone?
Only one icon?
I just finished reading Practical Cryptographyby Niels Ferguson and Bruce Schneier, and in the back there is a brief chapter about software patents. These comments are in a crypto book, but are addressed to software patents in general.
Among the choice comments are:
- Our current patent system is completely out of control. At best, patents are a necessary evil. At worst, they are an entirely legal form of fraud and blackmail.
- We think that the IT industry would be better off without patents than with patents.
- [t]he current system is simply not working.
- The patent system won't be fixed, because there is simply no political gain to be made in this aread.
All this is, as most people agree, true, but Schneier and Ferguson seem to think that it's something that we have to live with. Money talks, they say, and "There is, of course, onne group of people that consistently benefits from the patent system: the lawyers. No prizes for guessing which professional group claims that the current system is workable, or even good."Sad, but there you go.
BTW, the book is truly outstanding, and fills a huge gap in the literature of crypto: watch this space...
Lisa! In this house we obey the Laws of Thermodynamics!
--Homer Simpson
From the point of view of serious corporate customers, $US100,000 can be a great big bargain.
I think I'll keep my magnetic drives and spend my $999,900 on something else.
A pocket calculator?
...some jerk off material like T.A.T.U.'s CD with wet-tshit pics.
Man, do me a favour: keep me out of your fantasies, please!
The research is funded by a $2 million grant from the Advanced Technology Program of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, a government agency.
So the government is funding commercial companies (Cinea, Sarnoft) to come up with a technology to help protect the profits of other commercial companies? Not entirely unexpected, I suppose...
decide to change carriers, you also have to acquire a new phone as well as a new number.
You mean 'phone portability like that which has been available in the UK and Europe for years? I've been using GSM 'phones for seven years at least in the UK, and NEVER had a locked 'phone? Want to change carriers? Just swap the SIM card (note: this has not always been true for all carriers, but *I* personally have never had a locked 'phone). My 'phones that I now use in the US have all been bought in the UK, and cheaper than identical models in the US, too. It's not many gadgets you can say that about, and is a sure sign that a cartel is operating in the US...
From the title, you would think there is some technical flaw in palladium, but the article just goes on about some thing about not having control of your PC etc...
No, I wouldn't. It says "Cryptographers Find Fault With Palladium". To me that means that they perceive a problem with it, since "to find fault" is a very common idiom for "to criticise".
If the title had been "Cryptographers Discover Flaw In Palladium", that would have been misleading...
Yes, it was nicknamed "Concordski", at least in the UK. One crashed at the air show in Paris in 1973.
You can find out more about Concordski here and here.
reduced to carbon
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Yes, but you also have so start paying Apple too. .
(Incidentally, lots of people think that "reduced" is the wrong word here: try improved)
Many studies have shown that people subtly discriminate against members of an 'outgroup'
"We used to ostracise everybody, even each other!"
Aarfy (Captain Aardvark): Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Like an operating system is not a piece of software on which a business depends on?
No, not in the same way that a database is, since an OS is not (usually) a repository of persistent data. A company can stand the repeated crashing of an OS if the persistent data required to do business are preserved across crashes. It doesn't matter how long an OS stays up if the business's persistent data are not being preserved by the database.
We feel that our God project, Diety 1.0, will present a truly enhanced life for all, the benefits of which shall be obvious.
At last: Microsoft product that won't suffer from bloat!!
Excuse me, sir. Seeing as how the VP is such a VIP shouldn't we keep the PC on the QT 'cause if it leaks to the VC he could end up an MIA, and then we'd all be put on KP
Hey: it's still before midnight where I am! I'll need to take this seriously for the next couple of hours...
and would do it again in a hard beat. The only complaint I had was male intern to female intern ratio.
:-)
If the male/female ratio is very low, I guess a hard beat is the best you can hope for
You have 144 hours a week, no more, no less.
Well, I live in Redmond, and I get 168 hours per week. Does M$ distort really space/time that much?!?!?!
...TaxACT. It is available in a number of different versions, and carries a guarantee that if you are charged penalties or too much tax as a result of a TaACT error, the company will refund everything. They claim that it is the only software with this guarantee.
I hereby designate Petard as my word of the day
It's OK for you guys to laugh: what do you think it feels like for me to have a name which pretty much equate to "I fart" in French.
Still I suppose it could get me into a Monty Python film as a knight on top of a castle...