Is it possible to make the program as safe in Real Life as the alogrithm is mathematically?
One of the points made in Secrets and Lies is no, you can't make it as secure. At least, not without much effort. For your PGP data to be really secure you woould have the key in ROM, on some sort of PCMCIA type card, and locked in a safe when not in use. The message would be encrypted on a computer that's not on a network, and the encrypted message would be put on a floppy and sneaker-netted to the networked pc. Due diligence would be used in selecting the public/private pair.
The real question is, how secure do you need the data to be? Secure for a few hours to days (tactical) or secure for a few years to forever (strategic)? For tactical, PGP is Good Enough. For strategic(in text messages) a one time pad is required. Also, who is it secure from? Your annoying kid brother, or the NSA/GCHQ? That, too, determines what security you use.
Bought that nice three piece suit yet, Roblimo?;-) It really does read like something out of Business Week, and not the usual slashdot fare. Not that there's anything wrong with that.;->)
Actually, as a professional programmer/software engineer working for a small business I think/. could use a little more of these type of things, and less of JonKatz. Damned surprising to see it right after the first cup of coffee, though.
That's a wonderful argument in favor of spammers and against the various RBLs. After all, the spam really doesn't hurt anyone, and doesn't cost actual money, right?
The Smithsonian's Air & Space Museum has a Cray 1 on display. Look at the specs, the cost, and reflect upon Moore's Law.
Its processing speeds, of around 150 million floating point operations per second, were far above anything else that the time of its announcement in 1976. Those speeds are now matched by inexpensive workstations that fit on a person's desk.
I've noticed that myself. A juvenile bully gets a slap on the wrist, but when he goes to college, he gets jail time. And, of course, defending yourself gets you suspended.
ZdNet is reporting that Transmeta "will assist Microsoft with tweaks to the Tablet PC's Windows XP operating system." So we could have Linus actually developing Windows XP.
Along Railroad rights of way. The RRs run between cities, they own the land, and many of them laid fiber when they laid wires for the control signals for the signals. Sprint got its name because it was started by the Southern Pacific railroad. Lots of fiber next to their tracks. These days lots of fiber is laid next interstate highways.
At what point did lawyers stop using the English language?
Actually, it's more a matter of when they stopped using latin exclusvely. Law has been around for many years, some of the principles of US law go back to, IIRC, the Roman Empire. Much of US law is derived from the English Common Law. The words in the brief have very specific meanings, unlike the words in English as it is commonly spoken, which can have multiple meanings. That specificity is required , else all laws could be overly broad.
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to erase (not just delete, but erase the plaintext after you've encrypted it.
One of the points made in Secrets and Lies is no, you can't make it as secure. At least, not without much effort. For your PGP data to be really secure you woould have the key in ROM, on some sort of PCMCIA type card, and locked in a safe when not in use. The message would be encrypted on a computer that's not on a network, and the encrypted message would be put on a floppy and sneaker-netted to the networked pc. Due diligence would be used in selecting the public/private pair.
The real question is, how secure do you need the data to be? Secure for a few hours to days (tactical) or secure for a few years to forever (strategic)? For tactical, PGP is Good Enough. For strategic(in text messages) a one time pad is required. Also, who is it secure from? Your annoying kid brother, or the NSA/GCHQ? That, too, determines what security you use.
Actually, as a professional programmer/software engineer working for a small business I think /. could use a little more of these type of things, and less of JonKatz. Damned surprising to see it right after the first cup of coffee, though.
That's a wonderful argument in favor of spammers and against the various RBLs. After all, the spam really doesn't hurt anyone, and doesn't cost actual money, right?
I prefer Ginger. She's hot!
When I was in the army we talked about guys who "had two big brass ones". Titanium. This "Mir" guy must be one rough mutha!
Its processing speeds, of around 150 million floating point operations per second, were far above anything else that the time of its announcement in 1976. Those speeds are now matched by inexpensive workstations that fit on a person's desk.
Re-Read your post, then read your sig.
I've noticed that myself. A juvenile bully gets a slap on the wrist, but when he goes to college, he gets jail time. And, of course, defending yourself gets you suspended.
"A teenager in a small country town in New Zealand called in the FBI to stop what she worried could have been another school shooting in Pennsylvania"
"We eventually got his real name, his e-mail address, the city he lived in and the name of his high school."
See the Rough Draft column from Monday for more from the Press.
Why? Is it more cross-platform for cross-compiles? Just seems kind of odd. Your post, if expanded, might be an interesting story over at K5
HAL, yeah, right, "Open the goatsex link HAL" "I'm sorry Dave, you know I can't do that"
And we're still 2 days from 01-04-01.
On the bay we talk about buckets of crabs. Which do the same thing.
Actually, it's CVS Pocket Reference, from O'Reilly.
When I am linking to a post about about the tivo stuff? You smoking crack again?
According to zdnet Transmeta "will assist Microsoft with tweaks to the Tablet PC's Windows XP operating system." Have fun in Redmond, Linus!
ZdNet is reporting that Transmeta "will assist Microsoft with tweaks to the Tablet PC's Windows XP operating system." So we could have Linus actually developing Windows XP.
See my post at kuro5hin for more.
$20 billion? Hell, an aircraft carrier only costs about $3 billion. IIRC the newest Intel fab cost about $2 billion.
Yes. Others have noticed that as well. Even a brief bit in Cryptonomicron where a hacker talks of hacking law.
Along Railroad rights of way. The RRs run between cities, they own the land, and many of them laid fiber when they laid wires for the control signals for the signals. Sprint got its name because it was started by the Southern Pacific railroad. Lots of fiber next to their tracks. These days lots of fiber is laid next interstate highways.
How the hell did I do that? 'T' isn't even close to 'C'. Oy vey!
Actually, it's more a matter of when they stopped using latin exclusvely. Law has been around for many years, some of the principles of US law go back to, IIRC, the Roman Empire. Much of US law is derived from the English Common Law. The words in the brief have very specific meanings, unlike the words in English as it is commonly spoken, which can have multiple meanings. That specificity is required , else all laws could be overly broad.
Fractint is a classic. Runs on DOS (yuck), Linux (supposedly, segfaults on my 2.4 kernel), Win 9x and, I think NT.