On Thu, 3 Oct 2013, Peter Gutmann wrote:
For those not familiar with TL1, supposed to be readable here means
encoded in ASCII rather than binary. It's about as readable as
EDIFACT and HL7.
In a previous life I had to read, understand, and debug EDIFACT (it was
OpenLDAP, as I recall). It
On Wed, 2 Oct 2013, Jerry Leichter wrote:
Always keep in mind - when you argue for easy readability - that one
of COBOL's design goals was for programs to be readable and
understandable by non-programmers.
Managers, in particular.
-- Dave
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On Thu, 26 Sep 2013, ianG wrote:
Right, scratch the Brits and the French. Maybe AU, NZ? I don't know.
Maybe the Germans / Dutch / Austrians.
At the risk of getting political, I'd recommend against AU (I live there).
Our new gummint has already shown that it will put its own interests ahead
On Fri, 13 Sep 2013, Eugen Leitl wrote:
Given that there is One True Source of randomness to wit radioactive
What makes you think that e.g. breakdown oin a reverse biased
Zener diode is any less true random? Or thermal noise in a
crappy CMOS circuit?
It was a throw-away line; sigh...
Another whacky idea...
Given that there is One True Source of randomness to wit radioactive
emission, has anyone considered playing with old smoke detectors?
The ionising types are being phased out in favour of optical (at least in
Australia) so there must be heaps of them lying around.
I
Got a question that's been bothering me for a whlie, but it's likely
purely academic.
Take the plaintext and the ciphertext, and XOR them together. Does the
result reveal anything about the key or the painttext?
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Thanks for the response; that's what I thought, but thought I'd better
ask (I'm still new at this crypto game).
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I don't need my own bloody personal copy of it.
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On Wed, 28 Aug 2013, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
Anyway, I've already started implementing my proposed solution to that
part of the problem. There is still a need for a distributed database to
handle the lookup load, though, and one that is not the DNS.
(Delurking)
This suggests the use of
