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Turning on Bitlocker has been on my TODO list for quite some time now, but to me the real value of Truecrypt wasn't full disk encryption, it was having encrypted volumes and mounting them on a as…

Is that real? Is the web page just defaced?

Maybe if you personally go bankrupt. If your startup company goes bankrupt, I highly doubt it.

"Last Call". See http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/help/state/draft-iesg/ …

I love Matthew Butterick's Equity Text and use that together with his Concourse (which I'm slightly less enthused about, but they were designed to fit together).

This may be a stupid question, but why is there a convention to split? I saw that in set three of the crypto challenge, as well, and wondered. Is it so that you can always start counting at zero when …

I guess he had a bad day or whatever. Or maybe I read too much into what he wrote.

That's probably the guy he mentioned in another interview: the one who's cashing one cheque every year .

My experience with bug reports to Knuth were mixed, although number one obviously was most important to me. I got $2.56 for an error in content in one of his books. Actually the very first word in the…

Mathematica or Maple worksheets, maybe? I haven't really used either, but they seem to go a bit in that direction. Although they are strictly sequential, I guess, so maybe not.

I do understand where this no spec movement is coming from, but I have lots of problems with that. First, it's like the big players (and the opinion leaders) are telling the small ones how to beh…

> tutorials for say, a recent version of backbone.js I would hope that backbone.js releases carry version numbers. As a developer I usually know the versions of the tools I'm working with. But…

tom's Hardware is a bit like that: "System Builder Marathon Q4 2013", "System Builder Marathon, Q1 2014"

The encyclopaedia usually has its date prominently displayed on the cover because it's part of the business model: Nudging people into upgrading last year's edition because it's "h…

That feels weird. I only check a book's date when I'm trying to find out which edition I'm holding in my hands. It happens about once or twice times a year that I want to know that (adm…

People also say this about the SA forums. I paid for it (and some extras), enjoyed what I read in the archive -- there are some real pearls! -- but I have no idea how I could fit in there. So I'm…

Sad to hear this. I got into some ugly argument right on the very first try at participating in a discussion on the site, wasn't really impressed by how the mods handled it (although the one I PM…

That's exactly how I'm doing it. At the very bottom, just before the backlink to the home page, I have (in a smaller font size) something like "Original publication on March 2nd, 2014, …

> How an individual’s reputation is protected online is too important and subtle a policy matter to be legislated by a high court [...] Yeah, right. That's why the "right to be forgotten&…

Submit interesting stories. That's probably the easiest way. Karma from comments seems harder to me. When you comment, try to add value to the discussion. That often means (but not necessarily, o…

If you're ever near Sindelfingen (Germany), take a look at the buses at shift changes. More than twenty bus companies are shuttling workers to and from the factory. And it's no big deal. Of …

Suffice it to say that the author is mistaken when he claims that "The former is pretty much raw entropy, while the latter is the output of a CSPRNG function" /dev/random ist not &…

Every developer is a potential crypto designer. Alas, quite a few of them turn out to actually design crypto. Not everyone is reading HN. ;-)

Okay, so I seem to have gotten the gist of it. Still, I want XTS. :-)

I don't get the title. The title tells me I don't want XTS. Then the post explains that I don't want FDE, for sundry reasons. Then it tells me, sure, go ahead and use FDE, but be aware …

Well, typography at least has the claim to being somewhat objective, but as I said: you've probably seen much worse.