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I think the "he" is dfranke in this context.
Yeah, but I looked through the rest of the list and the rest of the examples could have referred to the male context, so I simply was just making sure.
> This, obviously, is not a cryptographically strong PRNG. Why is this obvious? The generator used is L'Ecuyer's MRG32k3a : http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~lecuyer/myftp/papers/streams00s... Is there a known weakness?
Very nicely done. This is precisely the attack that I described in a HN post a month ago. Glad to hear that it would have worked if I'd had time: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=596126
Wow. This post has been sitting on my hard drive for a little under a month waiting for arc3's release, and the hack itself was a few evenings' work, so this was simultaneous discovery damn near to the day. I'm not sure who was first; I never saw that comment at the time.
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Wow. This post has been sitting on my hard drive for a little under a month waiting for arc3's release, and the hack itself was a few evenings' work, so this was simultaneous discovery damn near to the day. I'm not sure who was first; I never saw that comment at the time.
I'm not trying to be first. All the kudos goes to you.
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I'm not trying to be first. All the kudos goes to you.
I'm not quibbling over credit; I just think this kind of simultaneity is a fascinating phenomenon. No doubt both of our thought processes got tweaked by the cluster of other security posts that were showing up on HN at the time.
I wonder what set you off.
I do like the fact that here on HN there were at least two of us who thought of this way of hacking the site, one actually made it happen. It's a high quality community.
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I'm not trying to be first. All the kudos goes to you.
I'm not quibbling over credit; I just think this kind of simultaneity is a fascinating phenomenon. No doubt both of our thought processes got tweaked by the cluster of other security posts that were showing up on HN at the time.
The point is that people and the ideas they have are influenced by external factors, many of them unconscious. But we will pick up on the same clues, think about the same problems, and maybe come up with the same solutions based on external factors. Nothing can stop an idea whise time has come.
Thanks to dfranke for giving us time to release a fix, and in fact writing part of it.
I hope you scoop him up for one of your YC teams. That hack was damned impressive for breadth and depth of knowledge, pretty rare in my experience.
This is pretty interesting stuff, but man it would have been nice if you were able to post it somewhere with actual HTML formatting. The gray on gray is tough after a full screen or two.
Very impressive. Are a you a professional security researcher or just a programmer who tilts that way?
Both involve taking hardware, a programming language, an API, an application or something else that someone in the computing industry had one purpose for, and bending it in a way to produce a rather unexpected, very unique result.
A great developer builds Web 2.0 with something as novel and limited as JavaScript and HTML.
A great security researcher made your toaster catch fire from a different continent (didn't they always say our toasters would be internet connected?).
I, personally, think the latter is more fun provided it doesn't cause any actual damage (and I think that was demonstrated ... a whitehat makes his own toaster catch fire and sometimes tells everyone who has that model of toaster how to fix it).
Nicely done.
Off topic yes, I cruised through his profile to see what else he was involved with or does and found this small piece he wrote that I found to quite good. I would recommend checking it out. http://dfranke.us/cfod.html