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Comment Re:Mathematically provably secure? (Score 1) 234

There are several "provably secure" computer systems. As in you can demonstrate they fulfil certain mathematical constraints and those constraints are absolute. Then you have to write the code and prove the code, then you have to hope the prover is correct and the hardwareis correct. Nothing is 100%.

As to the randomisation stuff - yes I've got examples, and we've hit the same thing in Linux with randomisation. You get cases where memory scribbles cause a problem only if the layout happens to be a specific variant (especially with stack randomisation). From "either it dies or it works" you get "1 in 10,000 times xyz app blows up". That does make debugging much much harder. Of course a good reply to that is "so improve the debugging tools".

Comment Re:There is a price for what you want (Score 3, Insightful) 1643

Yes. But what if you want a cheap computer? That is better than nothing at all. I do not want the best computer, I want something that does bare minumum. When you look at this in this way, I think Microsoft is nobler (and less effecient) than Apple. Microsoft in a way made the PC revolution possible, with all its negative side-effects.
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Journal Journal: Proof, Lemma 2.2

Measurability continued ...

Should be getting around to proving that all those functions are measurable, upto the algebra.

  1. Lemma 2.2
  2. Corollary 2.3
  3. Corollary 2.4
  4. Theorem 2.6
  5. Theorem C.7
  6. Corollary C.8
  7. Theorem 2.8

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