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  • Email isn't private. It was designed to be robust not private. Encryption never really caught on; and your counterparties using Gmail or some Microsoft server in the background will kill any expectation of privacy you might have.

    WW II's Gordon Welchman is worth reading about. Similar nasty end as Turing. Not as well known as Turing but a similar contribution before the encryption was actually solved.

    Have used Zoho for decades. Dozen domains, three/four actual accounts. Don't seem to have had any issues with them selling my info - use them with Addy.io. I don't gain anything from this reference/comment.

  • Yeah, thought I'd covered that.

    Female monarchs weren't always British. 1707 was the Inception of Great Britain. Corrections welcome, my history isn't always ideal.

  • Sometimes: a laughing hyena.

    If you don't have tested backups, you don't have a backup.

  • Farts are funny. Will always be funny. It's the follow-through that catches one unawares and dampens the mood.

    Don't stop laughing at stupid shit. The world gets very serious very quickly all on its own when you're looking and when you're not. If you can retain some ability to laugh, you'll be much better off.

    Am old fart: early Gen X.

    However, it is better to say nothing and be thought a fool than speak and remove all doubt.

  • that's unrelated - AES-256 for example can be executed just fine on either a 32- or 64-bit machine. in theory there's nothing stopping you from running it on an 8-bit or 16-bit CPU (although other considerations related to the size of AES's lookup tables make this unlikely). from some random googling, here is an implementation of Chacha20, another 256-bit encryption algorithm, for 8-bit microcontrollers.

    I started out programming a 6502a in 1980, 680X0 a little later in 87, so I get that bit, but it's easier doing operations on a larger register. I remember writing code for 8 bit multiplication of 32 bit floating points.

    I enjoyed and understood the rest of your prose though. Didn't do much/any programming/low level after say 2005, and regret it now. Trying to re-learn but things have moved on so much.

    I take that there isn't much motivation in moving to 128 because it's big enough; it's only 8 cycles (?) to fill a 512 (that can't be right?).

  • Maybe in your country.

    The UK has had three female PMs (?) and more female party leaders beginning almost fifty years ago.

    We've also had multiple female heads of state (Mary I in 1553; Elizabeth I in 1559 etc ). You might argue that those are an accident of birth, but I might remind you that England has never been shy about removing less than adequate heads of state.

    Tell me about your leaders who you say subjugate women.

  • Thank-you a lot for that. I wander around the tech blogs like lobsters etc, Reddit and here but never see anything that i remember seeing (if you follow me), but I don't consciously look.

    Encryption lengths are getting long so you'd think it was high time.

    Your description sounds like the advent of 32 bits where there was a 16 bit address bus stage.

  • If you're an alien race looking to take over, wouldn't the smartest thing to do be to look at how things are going and wait until the human race has destroyed itself.

  • That's not really the point of a gotcha question. The point is to score a (valueless) point over the victim and let the victim know you're (not you commenter) an arse.

  • "Have you voted? Your vote matters. Things can only change if you vote." (UK oligarchy feudalism resident)

    Fucking gotcha of my life, right there. Took a while before they knew it was a gotcha question though.

  • The obvious answer is for you pro BBC guys to move to Afghanistan to help them keep the peace and prevent them being targeted.

  • Whilst other distros move to a Weston (corrections please?) era Intel x86 2013 ish?

    Bravo, I think. That's going to be tough.

    On a related track, is there any talk of 128 bit chips in general?

  • You know in the current climate that if there was ever a custody dispute, neither father would get custody or access.

    Just sayin'.

  • Hahaha. They could stop in an instant if they wanted to.

    They're funded by giving our data to AI.

  • You mean my cosmetic surgeon? I pay on time and go back. What more were you thinking of?

    Seriously though, yes. The best thanks is to help them keep the lights on every month.

    Here in the UK we were pointlessly getting the clap every Thursday on our doorsteps for the NHS. I may have misunderstood.