Re:The first chosen-prefix collision for SHA-1
by MaxBarraclough on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @05:57PM
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> You can't hide secrets from the future
With the usual disclaimer about one-time pads.
> other fun forms of entropy beyond encryption being cracked such as encodings changing, file formats falling out of service/compatibility, "common knowledge" about slang or memes lost to the ages leaving things indecipherable
I wonder what the digital archaeologists of the future will make of today's programming languages.
(I was going to point out how far we've come since the languages of yesteryear, but we still have such horror-shows as Perl and Bash.)
With the usual disclaimer about one-time pads.
> other fun forms of entropy beyond encryption being cracked such as encodings changing, file formats falling out of service/compatibility, "common knowledge" about slang or memes lost to the ages leaving things indecipherable
I wonder what the digital archaeologists of the future will make of today's programming languages.
(I was going to point out how far we've come since the languages of yesteryear, but we still have such horror-shows as Perl and Bash.)