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I happen to like guns and shooting. It's a good point to understand the appeal of guns and also "the other side." But there is a point you are leaving out that comes up if you talk…

Instead of using the NIST recommended curve points it uses self-generated basis points and then takes the output as an input to FIPS/ANSI X.9.31 PRNG, which is the random number ge…

Except Chrome, which on every laptop I've ever used seems to decrease battery life by about a 1/3rd compared to Safari and is always marked as using significant power. (Currently 1…

I'm 99% certain they meant Free RTOS[0] and someone just misheard. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeRTOS

The usual distance bounding protocols only need a nano-second accurate timer on one device called the verifier. For example https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/sec10/tech/full_pape…

The timer could be in the car. Protocol looks like fob pings car, car challenges fob, fob responds.

so ORAM with this on top of it ?

Not sure how they do it, but it has been done before as a research project http://css.csail.mit.edu/cryptdb/ . One of the tricks it uses(though by no means the only) is to do a bin…

It might be true, but how usefulness is it when dealing with society as a whole?. For the Puttman, it probably kicks in, but for a whole field like e.g. programing/computer science…

Summers's point was about the distribution at the extremes, not the average. He was addressing the lack of professors in STEM at places like Harvard which manifestly select for the…

Sure. Lets suppose it actually was a valid defense. But what does that have to do with going through the Facebook and personal email of individual employees to know who to target. …

So I may have missed the details. I thought we knew they hacked Belgacom, but no one mentioned going through employee's personal email and social networks (though in light of this,…

Because they were useful for targeted surveillance? Not that I agree with the means or the scope, but there's an above board explanation for the desire to get the keys . Suppose yo…

The SIM card bit is actually I think a distraction. The real issue should be the means: the NSA/GCHQ intentionally targeted innocent/non government affiliated people's personal ema…

Personally, the biggest take away to this is the invasive targeting of completely innocent and ordinary people simply as a means to get access to things the NSA needed (sim Card ke…

Is one of /the main prng on FreeBSD actually arc4random? I.e. RC4?

The notation that a debate on the rules of digital warfare will do anything is questionable. Arms control limitations (SALT,START), the hague convention, etc, work because there ar…

Not this paper again. It can't be used for cryptographic usage and the title(which is the original title of the paper) is completely misleeading. The device you're authenticating m…

After you have tenure and a couple of grad students who believe in "A PhD is one of the few opportunities in academia to do true" ...

People being more social doesn't necessarily mean it was because the women were more social. It could simply be people were more social because it was a more diverse environment ( …

There aren't. Nacl certainly is credible. But it isn't (at least last time I looked) portable. As I understand this is because of a bunch of x86 assembly meant to generate very fas…

It's a terrible piece of self reflection in that case. His thesis is his stuff never got adopted because of the NSA? DJB is very smart, but he doesn't necessarily play well with ot…

The article quotes the judge as saying" "Defendant could have established such a personal privacy interest by submitting a sworn statement that could not be offered against him at …