Eric Cordian wrote:
It's certainly unethical for Nigerians to try and make a living by bilking
foreigners with elaborate schemes that promise vast riches in return for an
advance fee.
Granted.
But Nigeria is a very poor country, with high unemployment, where people are
forced by economic circumsta
I know there are readers here who are good at optimizing code. Here are
my attempts to make simple and short versions of base64 encode/decode
in C. I'd like to hear suggestions on how to simplify them even more.
Base64 encoding is a way of turning arbitrary binary data into printable
characters.
David Howe writes:
> Presumably these are the Nigerians who have only $80 for food that
> month, yet somehow can still afford to bulkspam thousands of inboxes
> each day, process bank transactions and take part in international phone
> calls.
Email is free. That is why we have a spam problem.
Roy M. Silvernail wrote:
> Think of it as evolution in action.
I think we've identified another applicant on the short list for Tim May's
old job. :)
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Eric Cordian wrote:
But Nigeria is a very poor country, with high unemployment, where
people are forced by economic circumstances to do almost anything to
try and feed their families. I see no reason to be proud of
reverse-scamming a Nigerian out of $80 when it might be his entire
family's foo
I visited that 419eaters site, and I must say I have really mixed feelings
about what the people are doing there.
It's certainly unethical for Nigerians to try and make a living by bilking
foreigners with elaborate schemes that promise vast riches in return for an
advance fee.
But Nigeria is a ve
Does anyone know of a recent brute-force work
factor calculation for the various common symmetric ciphers?
I.e. it'll take X 3.2gh Xeons Y years to brute cipher Z.
I know there's a table of these in Schneier and there's the "Seven
Cryptographers" paper but they're both pretty old at this point.
