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If that were true, he wouldn't have built something so perfect for abuse.

He now retracts, says it was poorly worded: https://twitter.com/iang_fc/status/727071298325618689

/dev/urandom while entropy available is low: $ rngtest -c 200000 -b 2000 It gets much worse.

Unpredictable and unbiased source of bytes, even on server machines and virtualized hardware at boot time.

I hope that this was offered as an example of the sorts of broken thinking that justifies this sort of backdoor that eventually leaks/is discovered by others. 1. Key based backdoor…

One thing I can add from my analysis is that there aren't seperate counters for files/teams/etc. there's only one. So if a given id is used by a team, it won't be used as a file id…

Interestingly, I put the same bug in at HackerOne 9 months ago. It was closed as not applicable. So they had at least two independent reports of the same bug and failed to understa…

DJB's nacl or libgpgme.

Why does the penny transaction have to confirm in 10 mins? Currently, and for at least a couple of years, you will likely still be able to send 0 fee transactions. The time for the…

Core has been moving away from failed experiments like unconfirmed transactions. (How that wasn't an obviously flawed idea in the first place is beyond me, but hey, might as well g…

yeah, not so much: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/wire-built-by-ex-skype-empl...

FWIW, direct link to cached version of gopresto page: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:K6ckHm8... here's the link the gopresto dump, from above http://rghost.ne…

any reason you didn't use https://github.com/jimhester/per-directory-history

After looking at Bitcoin brain wallets, this jumped into my mind. Use for good or for awesome.

DRC is hardly a conflict free region, or if it is right this moment , it is only because the genocide was so far reaching that there is no one left causing sufficient disturbance t…

or cli via https://github.com/dcadenas/gmail_sender create ~/.gmail and the post's example is: gmail -t dbieber@princeton.edu -s "Automate your life: sending emails" -c "Why'd the …

CAPTCHA comes from "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart". These tests don't fulfill that requirement. Random guessing gives you 3%, which is …

What do you mean by 'some of the best'? If a CAPTCHA can be solved or guessed in an automated fashion then attackers can just throw more (likely compromised) machines at the proble…