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thusoy

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About thusoy

Co-founder of megacool.co.

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    I recommend Weekend Reading by Assaf Arkin to everyone, covers several topics from design and front-end to security, tooling and peopleware. More than just a collection of links, i…

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    Comment #11904855

    Yes, self-signed certificates without a CA is MitM-prone, but that's the only thing Heroku enables. You're only given a username and password and have to do with whatever configura…

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    Thanks, glad you liked it!

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    Comment #11904177

    OP here. That's entirely correct, Postgres deployed correctly is secure against a MitM, but since Heroku has not issued a trust root, they are not. Edited to add: As a user of Hero…

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    Comment #11755816

    I think the word you're looking for is key stretching. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_stretching

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    Comment #11039756

    This close enough? https://teespring.com/human-chaos-monkey

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    For anyone that feel they might fall under the same category (I do!), represent: https://teespring.com/human-chaos-monkey

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    Comment #9537842

    Sadly, it doesn't. I was hoping for this as well, so I tested it, and it turns out that the user agent of the two browsers are identical . EME: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; …

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    I would guess so, yes. You can never prove that something is random, merely that it behaves randomly "enough". There are lots of testsuites[1][2] you can run that will test that a …

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    The easiest version is the most portable and easy to read in this case: os.urandom(20) Saves you from having to manage files at all, and works cross-platform.