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Signal message keys seem to include an IV. [1] Message keys are generated by passing a chain key through a key derivation function. [2] So you can also expand a shared secret estab…

Sounds right. [1] The mission patch is hilarious. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Weasel

Of course. https://groups.google.com/g/randomness-generation/c/eNnepJ_6...

You can search `known_hosts` for a fingerprint using `ssh-keygen -l -f ~/.ssh/known_hosts` and `grep`. If you disable `HashKnownHosts` in your ssh config, the command will also tel…

> That is the most stupid thing I've read in a while. Arrogance. It takes 10 lines of Python to compute a multiplicative inverse mod p, using arbitrary precision integers. [1] Try …

You will be happy to learn that under Chair Khan, the FTC is going to prioritize enforcement actions against this specific practice. Only 1 Commissioner issued a dissenting stateme…

> This is one of the many ways endless years of emergency low interest rates are destroying the economy and the livelihood of many people. Japan has held rates near the zero lower …

> My desktop text editor, KeenWrite, provides such basic TeX rendering in real-time. Lyx [1] is also great. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LyX

> Crypto continues to help nobody and achieve nothing in the real world It's kind of surprising how little progress has been made. It is absolutely possible to use privacy-respecti…

The "inflation targeting era" began around 1995 [1]. The official story explaing how 2% became an (informal) international standard is kind of interesting [2]. [1] https://www.stlo…

> He was rude then, and he’s not happy generally Not too long ago, people could encounter a grumpy store clerk and forget about it by the time they got home. Sometimes they'd even …

You're probably correct in this case, but not in general. The authors of [1] could have quietly run a money printer but elected to seek reforms instead. [1] https://online.wsj.com/…

Hamming is great in general. Some years ago, I picked up a copy of "Numerical Methods for Scientists and Engineers" for like $2 at a used book store. I had no idea who Hamming was,…

I think "honest market" is libertarian-speak for "no government". He's being serious.

I believe the United States slow walked its own Prompt Global Strike [1] program because it was perceived to be needlessly escalatory [2]. That sounds like sensible policy making. …

The formula for error bars under the traditional Binomial assumption is: +/- sqrt(p * (1-p) / N) So the errors are around +/- 1% for most values of p in this article. The article (…

> last month that I was made aware that the project has been discontinued (Why??) It looks like the main contributor is (or was very recently) a Signal developer [1], but they have…

Same here, mostly doing math stuff on x86. There was a recent thread [1] optimizing some very primitive trig functions. I recently watched a djb interview where he talked about the…

Wow, is it really this [1] easy to run a C routine? Where does the rpi4 store the firmware necessary to read from the sd card where this software is (presumably) stored? [1] https:…