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They won't stop using strong encryption. The big national security issue is not a break of government encryption; it's a break on civilian encryption. Consider a foreign adversary …

I've been better. I just lost my drivers license due to a medical issue (my "controlled" epilepsy ain't so much any more). My partner left for a six-week trip recently. I'm working…

From what I understand: tech, mission, and tickets. Say what you want, the NSA probably has some of the most interesting tech problems you'll encounter. Part of that is due to the …

Sort of depends on how you look at it. A shitty, misconfigured install of MySQL on an OpenBSD box won't automatically become secure. And the default install is pretty spartan-- you…

Oh, there are definitely better ways to de-bias; the read-check-discard construction is meant as a math example, not practical advice. Most of the popular PRNG constructions (for i…

I suppose I should have made it explicit that this construction relies on the unpredictability of SINGLE-bit reads. I had actually considered some wording about that and the indepe…

A couple of considerations: Regarding the hostname thing, the NISP SP800-90Ar1 specs for PRNGs include "personalization strings" as an optional part of the initialization. Lots of …

Right? > In effect, Romu generators are infinitely fast when inlined. What the hell does "infinitely fast" even MEAN in this context? They can be parallelized easily? The computati…

For a lot of folks with epilepsy, this is nothing new. Plenty of medications that treat epilepsy are known to induce changes in mood, mental state, etc. Probably the biggest one is…

> 10 years from now, it might be as good as plain text. I created an account just to chime in on this. In short: horseshit. Look, cryptology is a tricky field, but when it comes to…