Comment Is windows key storage FIPS compliant?? (Score 1) 95
Because the author is saying that it uses password & some session key to encrypt. That means, it must be internally generating encryption key from password & encrypt. As for FIPS, password based key derivation functions are not allowed in FIPS mode [PBKDF. I think it is PKCS#5].
One key storage solution is using FIPS compliant hardware to store the keys [using pkcs#11].
John Carmack Discuss Mega Texturing 313
An anonymous readers writes in to say that "id Software has introduced a new technology dubbed Mega Texturing that will allow graphic engines to render large textures and terrains in a more optomized way while also making them look better. Gamer Within has Q & A with John Carmack on Mega Texturing."
Torvalds on the Microkernel Debate 607
diegocgteleline.es writes "Linus Torvalds has chimed in on the recently flamed-up (again) micro vs monolithic kernel, but this time with an interesting and unexpected point of view. From the article: 'The real issue, and it's really fundamental, is the issue of sharing address spaces. Nothing else really matters. Everything else ends up flowing from that fundamental question: do you share the address space with the caller or put in slightly different terms: can the callee look at and change the callers state as if it were its own (and the other way around)?'"
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