On 02/25/2014 12:13 PM, Terry Reedy wrote:
On 2/25/2014 8:32 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 12:21 AM, Donald Stufft wrote:
Instead of pre-generating one set of values that can be be used to DoS things
you have to pre-generate 256 sets of values and try them until you get the
right one. It’s like putting on armor made of paper and saying it’s harder to
stab you now.
Paper armor? You mean the stuff they tested here?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1980597/
OT, but I just watched that Mythbusters episode and they confirmed that on a
weight basis, paper armor from multiple
folded sheets was comparable to steel. They have also shown that phonebooks
stop ordinary bullets.
Those must be big-city phone books. About the only thing my phone book would
stop is a bb. :/
--
~Ethan~
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