I immediately clicked on the link mistakenly seeing what I thought was going to be a discussion advocating avoiding inverse fast fourier transforms. I should have read the title twice.
I've certainly heard of situations where police will post very visible warnings on limited access highways, "DWI Checkpoint Ahead". But the checkpoint is on the off-ramp of the next exit. The theory being that people who are driving intoxicated will self select themselves.
I remember one day in school I was going to class and I noticed a small poster that was advertising the CS/CENG department. The poster had a group of people in one of our labs poking wires into some breadboards, looking at stuff on computer screens, having a great time. The group consisted of about half normal looking guys and half semi-attractive girls.
I immediately wondered who in the hell these people were. They certainly weren't the guys (notice I don't say "people") that were in all my classes. Then I looked a little harder and I recognized them as being some of the Industrial (Imaginary) Engineers I had shared classes with earlier in college. Did somebody just gather them up and say, "Okay, put some wires into that and look interested"? Probably.
Needless to say I felt somewhat insulted. I'm not sure of the degree of distribution of that poster, but I guess it was to lessen the nerd factor of the program. If they had put our ugly mugs on it, nobody would want to sign up.
I can assure you that the certification process was not created by the companies that are having their products validated. I think that validating OpenSSL presented a unique problem as the writers of the standard did not foresee a source only module.
You should read the article. It's fairly objective in what it has to say. The article goes into detail about how the company has changed its image, but still does almost the same thing it did.
I did not feel the article was giving Claria any positive recognition about their current business practices at all.
You know, we have snow here in Arkansas too. Actually we have four distinct seasons. I've been a lot of places, but there's no where I'd rather be in the Fall than here in NW Arkansas.
I guess a lot of people seem to have trouble with the idea of living in the south. Yes, there are rednecks. But those rednecks are nice people. You'll find most people are pretty normal, just maybe more friendly than you're used to.
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I immediately clicked on the link mistakenly seeing what I thought was going to be a discussion advocating avoiding inverse fast fourier transforms. I should have read the title twice.
I've certainly heard of situations where police will post very visible warnings on limited access highways, "DWI Checkpoint Ahead". But the checkpoint is on the off-ramp of the next exit. The theory being that people who are driving intoxicated will self select themselves.
I remember one day in school I was going to class and I noticed a small poster that was advertising the CS/CENG department. The poster had a group of people in one of our labs poking wires into some breadboards, looking at stuff on computer screens, having a great time. The group consisted of about half normal looking guys and half semi-attractive girls.
I immediately wondered who in the hell these people were. They certainly weren't the guys (notice I don't say "people") that were in all my classes. Then I looked a little harder and I recognized them as being some of the Industrial (Imaginary) Engineers I had shared classes with earlier in college. Did somebody just gather them up and say, "Okay, put some wires into that and look interested"? Probably.
Needless to say I felt somewhat insulted. I'm not sure of the degree of distribution of that poster, but I guess it was to lessen the nerd factor of the program. If they had put our ugly mugs on it, nobody would want to sign up.
I can assure you that the certification process was not created by the companies that are having their products validated. I think that validating OpenSSL presented a unique problem as the writers of the standard did not foresee a source only module.
Some level of source code review is required in all FIPS levels for all validations.
You should read the article. It's fairly objective in what it has to say. The article goes into detail about how the company has changed its image, but still does almost the same thing it did.
I did not feel the article was giving Claria any positive recognition about their current business practices at all.
You know, we have snow here in Arkansas too. Actually we have four distinct seasons. I've been a lot of places, but there's no where I'd rather be in the Fall than here in NW Arkansas.
I guess a lot of people seem to have trouble with the idea of living in the south. Yes, there are rednecks. But those rednecks are nice people. You'll find most people are pretty normal, just maybe more friendly than you're used to.