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Re:Sending UDP Messages in Node.js Without DNS Lookups on Friday October 21, 2022 @08:23AM (#33287263)
A bit surprising that the post doesn't mention an alternative of, roughly, "await util.promisify(socket.connect)(8125, host)". Perhaps the author needs the messages to be sent to a new host quickly when DNS records change, but it might be informative to other readers to appreciate the trade-off.
Re:Grand jury subpoena for Signal user data on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @12:21PM (#12636643)
The cost of running Vuvuzela is dominated by bandwidth, and the paper used AWS prices to estimate the cost; purchasing IP transit directly would lead to about an order of magnitude reduction in costs (still non-trivial, of course).
Re:OpenBSD disk encryption (2015) on Tuesday September 06, 2016 @08:40AM (#12435509)
Based on my reading of the article, it says that OpenBSD always uses the same key, scr_key[0], and does not implement the use of different keys for different parts of the disk. I haven't looked at the OpenBSD source code to confirm this, though.
Re:The KeyKOS Nanokernel Architecture (1992) on Saturday November 07, 2015 @07:33PM (#10526828)
Here are some parts of the KeyKOS source code: http://css.csail.mit.edu/6.858/2011/readings/keykos/