Ah, thanks. Pretty sure the PHP 4 docs in 2004 recommended individual salting. Save each salt alongside the hash. A global salt is just a really odd combination of doing a little more but still being lazy. They probably did it to make their study achievable.

My friend in high school made a website and rolled his own hash function. I was able to brute force every password in a reasonable amount of time with interpreted PHP code on a 667MHz Celeron. It didn't help that he failed to sanitize inputs; the ASCII null character really sped up finding collisions.

Do you have an example?

Conceptually, with enough computing power, it should be possible to simulate a human brain. That would give a computational basis for human behavior.

Back in 2004 or 2005, when I was just some kid in high school playing around making a little website with PHP, I used salted hashes for password storage because that's what the PHP 4 docs recommended. It's not that hard.

My first question on reading the summar was whether the hashes were salted or not. I followed some of the references in your link and ended up at https://securelist.com/password-brute-force-time/112984/, which indicates that these password hashes are indeed salted.

I haven't looked into this stuff in a long time, but I think best practice nowadays is to use a salt, a more secure hashing algorithm, and possibly multiple rounds of the hash to slow down attacks.

SoftwareArtist probably disagrees with the bolded part of what you wrote.

I say this because they wrote,

I'm sure many people have arguments for why God exists despite the present-day lack of such evidence; I'm only trying to explain where SoftwareArtist seems to be coming from. I will further claim that, for some major religions, it's possible to prove their deity doesn't exist if they define the deity clearly enough and the definition conflicts with other, well established facts.

Regarding trying to pin down definitions of athiest and agnostic, it seems that most people, especially non-academics, use these terms somewhat loosely. That's just something that happens with human language.

Do you understand how acting like an insufferable ass leads to poorer conversations?

The truth is out there. [hums X-files theme]

Anonymous shitposting is a human right. I hold this truth to be self-evident.

With Gerald Bull, it's pretty clear why some parties with the ability to kill him would want to do so. Ditto for Iranian nuclear scientists, etc.

These look a lot like random occurrences that people are associating after the fact.

But her emails.

$50k worth of LTO-9 tapes, no compression.

Thanks for using metric. I don't know why they're talking about temperature and heating when the units are clearly referring to charge. Anyway, 9.1 Coulombs isn't that much charge over an area that large, and they should look into using better wire insulation. Or conductors with a higher work function.

The halting problem is undecidable.

Hey, I'm agreeing with you. I'm completely flabbergasted that all of the experts working in this field think they're accomplishing something and haven't sought the superior knowledge that you and Peter Gutmann posess. It's disappointing that all of these companies and smart people are wasting so much time and so many resources as a result.

This is very true. gweihir is 100% correct: quantum computing isn't computing and is never going to work.

The real tragedy is all the companies and scientists spending so much time and money researching this technology and improving the state of the art. They could all save themselves a whole lot of wasted effort by listening to gweihir and not bothering. A shame.

In other news, that newfangled device Bardeen and Brattain just cooked up is a mere laboratory curiosity and has abysmal gain. Call me when it has a gain of over 100, is smaller than 10 mm^3, and I can buy one for less than a nickel.

I'm thinking big picture here. If you're trying to stop the spread of an airborne illness, following evidence-based guidelines like getting vaccinated, wearing masks, and social distancing is going to help. And these things work better when more people do them. An educated populace in a country where this issue has not been politicized will follow the guidelines because they understand what's going on and want to help.

The US was one of the few places where this issue was politicized, unfortunately.

There are instances where it could help. When companies become so large they can buy any startups that look like they might eventually compete, that's a problem. Think facebook and instagram or facebook and whatsapp.

Forcing microsoft to properly support open document formats would be another win. Or doing something about Apple's stranglehold on in-app purchasing methods. I'm sure there are plenty of other examples where companies with monopolies are abusing their power.

I've never bought anything like the smart home stuff or hardware tied to a particular service that you mention.