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ImperialViolet - TLS Symmetric Crypto

At this time last year, the TLS world was mostly running on RC4-SHA and AES-CBC. The Lucky 13 attack against CBC in TLS had just been published and I had spent most of January writing patches for OpenSSL and NSS to implement constant-time CBC decoding. The RC4 biases paper is still a couple of week…

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Hasnain says:

"Fashions in Shaving and Trimming of the Beard: The men of the Illustrated London News, 1842-1972:

This research note presents sample-derived measures of comparative frequencies over time (1842-1972) for changing modes in men's facial barbering."

Posted on 2014-02-27T19:15:31+0000

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Hasnain says:

Why?!

"C++ COMPILE-TIME PROLOG INTERPRETER
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C++ Templates are Turing Complete. It means that any computation expressible by
a computer program can be computed, in some form, by a template metaprogram."

Posted on 2014-02-26T21:43:39+0000

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High Scalability - High Scalability - The WhatsApp Architecture Facebook Bought For $19 Billion

Rick Reed in an upcoming talk in March titled That's 'Billion' with a 'B': Scaling to the next ...

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My Management Lessons from Three Failed Startups, Google, Apple, Dropbox, Twitter and Square

Kim Scott had one thing to do that day. She was going to price her product. It was the year 2000, she was the founder and CEO of Juice Software, and she had blocked off her whole morning to make this decision. The moment she stepped off the elevator, she was met by co-worker after co-worker who need...

Click to view the original at firstround.com

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Read Wendi Deng Murdoch’s Mash Note Allegedly About Tony Blair: “He Has Such Good Body”

Mark Seal on the alleged affair that helped end Rupert Murdoch’s third marriage.

Click to view the original at vanityfair.com

Hasnain says:

"Seduced and Abandoned

The 14-year marriage of Rupert Murdoch and Wendi Deng ended abruptly last year, after the News Corp. chairman came to believe his third wife had been romantically involved with a former head of state and with a prominent Silicon Valley executive. Talking to friends of the couple’s, Mark Seal reports on the shifting power dynamics in the Murdoch household as Deng’s ambitions changed, and tackles the question now being debated: Who blindsided whom?"

[former head of state] = Tony Blair
[prominent Silicon Valley executive] = Eric Schmidt

Posted on 2014-02-23T07:16:05+0000