Obama: cryptographers who don't believe in magic ponies are "fetishists," "absolutists"

For a libertarian award, it does seem to have a lot of socialists get nominated. Charles Stross once described it as the Prometheus Award by the Libertarian Futurist Society for the best Ken MacLeod Scottish Socialist Libertarian SF novel

Also, The Dispossessed is in their hall of fame. Anarcho-syndicalists like those in the book are libertarian-communists.

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holy fsm i love side channel attacks. they are by far the most interesting (to me). every time i hear of a new novel one (typing patterns, radiation, zero day usb bugs, frickan’ lasers) it makes me giddy.

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Heee. I have a soft spot for these too.

You may like this toy.

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Why dirty?

Well it didn’t say you can repeat the mantissas, so you should probably respect the given significance.

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So, wouldn’t it be best to leave the details to cryptographers? You wouldn’t happen to know what the cryptographers happen to be saying, would you?[/quote]
Please read my comment here if you haven’t already–I was just speculating about an issue I wasn’t sure if cryptographers had even addressed (since I thought maybe they had only been addressing schemes in which the government would be able to tap into large numbers of devices rather than a handful each year, and probably do so remotely rather than needing the devices in hand), and my comments were meant to be open-ended, I was looking for feedback on my speculated methods rather than claiming in any confident way they’d work.

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