MrXOR

Excuse me.

Excuse me for changing the title of your essay. I should not do that.

The title was just my opinion. Some days ago, I read the excellent newsletter [1] of Filippo Valsorda about a Telegram's bug [2]. Yesterday, I googled for bugdoors and read about them and found this Apple's bug and your excellent essay (with many useful hyperlinks) about it.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25726068

[2] https://habrahabr.ru/post/206900

The problem of censorship on Twitter and other social media can be solved with a good moderator like dang (thank you!)

Thanks for sharing this class.

The best references to learn Unix (and TCP/IP and networking) are still William Rich Stevens books.

Other courses/sources that I found very useful:

http://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs114/2003fa/

http://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs214/2004sp/

http://boris.lk.net/unix/

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/1011/UnixTools/notes.pdf

https://dasher.wustl.edu/chem430/readings/unix-tutorial.pdf

Original source: http://e-maxx.ru/algo

Online version: https://cp-algorithms.com

No PR!

FB uses Subversion!

Signal is my choice for its security, but Telegram has an advantage: it is more user friendly.

Or what made Bell labs so special?

Happy new year!

Me too.

My notes:

1- Competitions should not reduce security for the speed.

2- We need a portfolio of winners, not one winner.

3- Put the experts onto the selection committee.

4- The world has a limited number of cryptographic experts capable of carrying out, and willing to carry out, "public" security analysis.

5- The design of DES takes 17 man-years works and 6 years R&D by IBM and NSA.

6- Narrowing the encryption problem to a single, influential algorithm might drive out competitors, and that "would reduce the field that NSA had to be concerned about".

7- NSA primary mission has always been signals intelligence.

8- What if NIST/NSA know a weakness in 1/10000000 elliptic curves?

9- F^^k publish or perish.

10- We need Boring crypto, crypto that simply works, solidly resists attacks, never needs any upgrades.

djb is top expert in high speed cryptography. He was writing a book[1] on this topic, but I can't find his book. What happened to this book?

PS. It seems he prefers Serpent to Rijndael!

[1] https://cr.yp.to/highspeed.html

TL;DR: FBI is the holder of the world’s biggest Bitcoin wallet (after Satoshi).

Some good links about this effect are currently in discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25551624

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25546787

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Sadly!

Past discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8282923

This is a great paper, I bookmarked this webpage.