Category: Security
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Thermodynamics
Brute-force attacks against 256-bit keys will be infeasible until computers are built from something other than matter and occupy something other than space. – Bruce Schneier
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Our inability to understand the Exponential function
I was reminded of this quote, due to the discussions triggered by the Bitcoin private key database troll website about the feasibility of brute-force searching for the private key of a Bitcoin address. The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function. – Albert Allen Bartlett A reddit user made some…
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Pseudorandom
Google developers have confirmed a cryptographic vulnerability in the Android operating system that researchers say could generate serious security glitches on hundreds of thousands of end user apps, many of them used to make Bitcoin transactions. (via Ars Technica) The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance. – Robert Coveyou,…
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Security risk in Chrome with HTTPS Everywhere combined with Incognito
I recently noticed that when I log in to two Twitter accounts, one from Google Chrome’s main window and one from an Incognito one, the session would sometimes mysteriously “leak” to the main window. I suspected this may be caused by a faulty extension, and it seems I was right. The faulty extension is, ironically,…