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backdoorsgalore

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    Comment #21374405

    WebGPU version of TensorFlow is in the works. Hopefully, that will dethrone NVIDIA. AFAIK, it's significantly more performant than WebGL, and it works on top of Vulkan, D3D and Met…

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    Comment #21356002

    Right, but "truly random" or "pseudo random" won't matter for decoding if the 4096 can be guessed by brute force. A video file has at most tens of thousands of 4096 blocks, and he'…

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    Comment #21348634

    You are making two choices here: one out of say 10K and the other out of 100. You'd be lucky to end up with 20 bits of entropy. That can be cracked in a microsecond (exaggerating a…

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    Comment #21348420

    I thought he meant a series of pads on a USB stick exchanged in advance. If you're trying to get just one message across that's very easily doable as you say, and with many other w…

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    Comment #21345630

    The "government" is not one coherent entity. Also, its primary goal is the oppression, intimidation and subjugation of the masses, not logical thinking.

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    Comment #21342876

    > The key is "your own" By "public" I don't mean that their spec is "published" but that their implementation is open source and has various 3rd party contributions and dependencie…

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    Comment #21342302

    All public encryption algorithms have backdoors in their implementation and sometimes (as with Elliptic Curve standards from NIST adopted in the browser) in their spec. You might g…

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    Comment #21341930

    USB stick... I'm sure it'll work out great. What if you have to give it up with a gun to your head? > Hand wavy as heck. Then you meander. Not sure what you're responding to.

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    Comment #21341714

    Every cryptographic protocol has a weakness in its implementation if not in its spec (and if not in the tool itself then in its various dependencies)