Tomte

Again Crypto I with no Crypto II in sight... :-(

0.9, I guess. At some point (shortly after the 0.9 release?) one of the first examples stopped working with a then-current git build, so I stopped reading it and concentrated on the official tutorial …

I'd be more interested in the safety of those electromechanical components. Have you developed them under any applicable safety standards? Otherwise I'd prefer to stay a purely organic organ…

I know I haven't submitted in forever (and may have been removed of the set of active participants), but I got your New Year's bankruptcy mail, but never the "bonus set". Is that s…

Totally unlike the books you named, but the best "intelligent investment" advice is probably in Bogle's "Common Sense on Mutual Funds" and similar books.

No. /dev/random does not deliver "new entropy", it delivers the very same cryptographically good pseudorandom stream. Look at the sketches in the article.

No, I wrote specifically in the beginning that I'm talking about Linux.

Thanks!

It's hard to please everyone. http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1zt76a/myths_about_de... …

Yes, without any Javascript, real native chrome.

I never understood why Mozilla always talked about how great the future was going to be, when Persona would be part of web browsers. But then never implemented it in Firefox, even as a default-off opt…

It's an informal way to put it, but yes, it boils down to that. It's almost the definition of a block cipher. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudorandom_permutation …

Yes, that's why I gave the example of MT. People really believe that /dev/urandom belongs to that class of RNG.

Thanks for laying out your thoughts, but obviously I disagree. Let me rebut two points that kind of irk me: You claim that the Android problem that bit several Bitcoin wallets was due to java.security…

That's one thing. The other one is that after rewinding you've got the identical internal state of the CSPRNG. So you're possibly reusing the same random numbers (or closely related one…

This is basically a response to the widespread conception that /dev/random has some mechanism whereby it generates "true" random numbers, while /dev/urandom only uses som…

In which way are those platform guarantees? Honest question, I don't understand where you're getting at.

You are right, 'belorn, that's an important point. This really only comes up in VM settings and some small embedded systems, I think. I have made a mental note to see if I can find a way to …

Schneier plays enigmatic... but what exactly does he not like about the "xkcd scheme". I mean, it's basically Diceware, isn't it?

Nobody I know has TextSecure installed. Of course I can still send unencrypted text messages. Are you trolling me?

I had downloaded RedPhone and TextSecure. My contact list was a glorious zero people (everyone I know uses WhatsApp). A few months ago I thought about using Threema and the like, but realized nobody…

In safety-related system you usually don't try to correct bit flips (at least in my niche), but you've got lots and lots of mechanisms ensuring that bit flips are discovered. Even more, hard…

That's exactly the wrong advice. You should always use /dev/urandom on Linux for cryptographic use, unless you know exactly why you need /dev/random. Hint: you don't. (On…

Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany ( http://usa.usembassy.de/etexts/2plusfour8994e.htm ): "Welcoming the fact that the German people, freely exercising the…

My thinking was: how do they single you out? But I guess it was speaking English without an awful accent. :-)

Yes, it seems normal to me, unless it happens regularly. I am now 32 years old. I have been in a police stop when driving my car only twice (and one of those was a mistake, I thought they wanted me to…

How do they recognize you as an alien? At the border, sure, but inside the country?

And again the old meme that /dev/urandom is bad...

No, I'm pretty certain I won't see such a change, and since I'm not American, nor do I live in America, my interest in that is very limited.