The only one that is known for sure is the ECC-based PRNG. Nothing has been disclosed about their choice of elliptic curve parameters themselves for the NIST-approved elliptic curves, but so far no indications have been found that they may have selected them deviously - and the fact remains that ECC was first discovered in academia: the NSA were caught by surprise on this. As for DES, they tinkered with its initial design on NSA's advice all right, and it was only decades later that it was revealed why they did so: to make it resistant to either differential or linear cryptanalysis (I forget which) a technique that was known by the NSA at the time but not in academic circles.

Your knee-jerk distrust of NIST is, if anything, more irrational.

Another possibility is that they are attempting to drum up interest in a field that has been promising to revolutionize things for a couple of decades now, and whose actual practical achievements remain extremely limited.

QC is very marginally better against symmetric algorithms than traditional computers. Plus it remains to be seen whether QCs will ever amount to anything other than lab curiosities with no practical applications.

No need to write more.

I mean, the language in the summary merely rephrases the question, without really explaining anything. And the body in the article says, in black and white, that the reason is because there is less material available for the black holes to swallow. Nice that they have found out, but hardly an unexpected answer.

You are now going to carry on paying premium for those products and you are going to be subjected to ads. And you are going to like it, because Apple knows what you need and want.

You preempted me: do gamers use their browser significantly differently than the rest of mortals?

Well, hope springs eternal.

Next step, shut down Meta.

I would like a phone like that - but never at that price. In fact, I wouldn't pay more than a few hundred US dollars for it. It is a nice gadget, but nowhere near as nice as warranting that preposterous price.

You are right: the subsidies to fossil fuels companies should stop. I assume you are aware of the fact that they are getting millions upon millions of dollars from the federal government every year, are you?

MAGAts are not interested in such newfangled contraptions.

Taking into account the vastness of space and time, the constraints imposed by physics, and the relatively short existence of individual biological species, chances are any advanced civilizations will be too far from us either in space or in time (or both) for us to detect. Unless humans prove to be an exceptionally long-lived species (which is a very doubtful proposition, given their inveterate stupidity) the most likely scenario is one in which humans will go extinct without ever finding out whether or not other advanced civilizations exist, have ever existed, or will ever exist.

The percentage of individuals with high levels of psychopathy indicators have been found to be significantly more noticeable among people in the executive tiers of for-profit companies. I would not be surprised that, if the allegations against him are true, Mr. Carson were to belong to such a group: if so, chances are Mr. Carson felt no compunction nor remorse about having made up important aspects of his résumé and about grabbing data that he was not entitled to grab.

I just do streaming these days: a large monitor connected to my PC seems to be able to do everything I want.