User: bratell

Re:Last chance, Netscape

On: Netscape 4.7 Arrives on the Scene

They sure does. It's one of the main objectives to get Purify and friends happy.

Ironically, one of the biggest contributors in this area is not from within Netscape (Thanks Bruce!).

Re:Comedy of errors

On: NSA backdoor creates security hole in Windows

Then, instead of requiring a backdoor in the OS itself, make a small, portable tool that exploits a security hole so obscure that only by being NSA dudes and working with Microsoft can you find it.

That is a backdoor.

Re:Already in 1998

On: New Power-of-Two Prefixes?

Damn clicking on the wrong button. Here is the URL again and this time clickable.

http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html

Already in 1998

On: New Power-of-Two Prefixes?

The prefixes isn't really anything new. This was talked about almost a year ago, even though I don't know if it reached Slashdot and the slashdot community.

http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html

It can be made

On: Voting over the net?

There are developed algorithms for secure voting even though I don't remember enough of them to say if they are applicable in this case.

If you want to check out more, please read (the bible) "Applied Cryptography" by Bruce Schneier.

In any case I think that computer voting will be quite important in a decade or two.