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#TIL Back in 2005, John Gilmore and Zooko (both are well-known cypherpunks) told Linus Torvalds he should avoid using SHA-1 in git right now before it's too late, since it was already theoretically unsound. Linus completely rejected this suggestion. He said the attack is theoretical, and git's hash is not meant for security anyway - if you want to use git securely, you should only trust your local tree and never pull code from a public server.

This decision basically summarizes the upstream kernel community's historical attitude on security mitigations...

RT @bascule@twitter.com: 2005 John Gilmore vs Linus Torvalds on SHA1 "debate" in a nutshell https://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2017-February/031623.html

RT @zooko@twitter.com: I, too, begged Linus not to use SHA1 and he (indirectly) mocked me for it. IIRC I suggested that they use Tiger-192 instead. If they had, it would still be working fine and would not require an upgrade.

#infosec #git #cryptography #crypto #cypherpunk

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@freemo @stux

You can also evaporate something (but only as long as you have something to evaporate). Surprisingly many spacecraft used evaporative cooling at least sometimes (Gemini had an evaporator that seemed to have been used at low flow continuously, Apollo LM was cooled purely by evaporation, Apollo CSM had an evaporator to allow higher heat rejection rates than by radiators alone and as the sole way to dispose of heat after the SM was gone, Shuttle had an evaporator to cover high heat load intervals and, I assume, to help in the case the payload doors won't open).

Q: If system programmers create a music genre, what would it be?

A: Dumpedcore.

perfection

#Tortoise opening the new #science lab at the #University of #Lincoln

@acdw i found it. it was the first Danish translation

the eel swims away sadly with their financial portfolio after i explain that i had said "e-learning" and not "eel earning" :(

@freemo @trinsec FYI Folding@Home is supporting both (CPU/GPU)

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