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Re:Eight Bits of Trust; eMudhra's CA keys cracked in millise... by zapkyeskrill on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @08:10AM (#50179564)
Two, and only two?
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Re:Eight Bits of Trust; eMudhra's CA keys cracked in millise... by amoss on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @08:41AM (#50179923)
You have almost understood the joke.
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Re:Eight Bits of Trust; eMudhra's CA keys cracked in millise... by floydnoel on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @02:21PM (#50185317)
two is off-by-one from three btw
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Re:Eight Bits of Trust; eMudhra's CA keys cracked in millise... by arzmir on Thursday October 22, 2026 @12:06PM (#50197292)
But the cache invalidation failed
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Re:Eight Bits of Trust; eMudhra's CA keys cracked in millise... by throw0101a on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @05:16PM (#50187747)
Well:

    There are actually only two hard problems in computer science:
        0) Cache invalidation
        1) Naming things
        4) Asynchronous callbacks
        2) Off-by-one errors
        3) Scope creep
        6) Bounds checking
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38806257

Also: https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TwoHardThings.html

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