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Key exchange is done for speed (symmetric key crypto is way faster than public key) and forward secrecy. It’s not done because RSA is flawed per se. We use DH instead of e.g. ElGamal encryption for the same reasons.
Re:You got a null result. Will anyone publish it? on Wednesday July 24, 2024 @10:59AM (#41057783)
In cryptology there’s something called CFail, which is a bit like this. https://www.cfail.org/call-for-papers
Re:Announcing unlimited free private repos on Monday January 07, 2019 @02:44PM (#18849193)
> Getting young engineers on the platform for free will pay off handsomely when they join a team and automatically assume Github is their code storage tool of choice.

Github student pack was already a thing. https://education.github.com/pack

Google foobar is back?

I just got a Google Foobar window, closed it and then tried to go back to google.com/foobar, but it's not showing up, what's interesting, is that foobar is back? Anybody else notice this?

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