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throwaway838475

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    Comment #22024535

    The US has the highest real incarceration per capita on the planet except Seychelles, mostly for nonviolent crimes that were instituted (War on Drugs) by Nixon to attack the poor, …

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    Comment #22024510

    Almost. That construction is still vulnerable to chosen input attacks without inner and outer padding, which is basically rediscovering HMAC, which also isn’t suitable for storing …

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    Comment #22024491

    I always shake my head when performance is touted for new functions/constructions. It’s more important to minimize the costs of legitimate use while maximizing the costs of softwar…

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    Comment #22024472

    The correct term is PBKDF. And more succinctly: crypto hash fn != authenticated hash fn (like HMAC constructions) != PBKDF

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    Comment #22024067

    The whole modality of a single package in a single configuration at a single version is broken and dead dependency-hell of yesteryear. Still, ports and packages collections mechani…