Recently I've been trying to implement some Bitcoin-related code, and I've stumbled upon a weird concept, a SHA-256 "midstate". Some explanation is given here.
The general concept is that Bitcoin relies on performing SHA hashing of a 128 byte data chunk many times, but only the second half of th...
suppose we have 2 encrypted msgs with 2 different public key issued from the one server. there is a client who wants to send these to msgs to the server. in the middle there is an adversary, who eavesdrops all the communications, so he already got the 2 encryption keys and the 2 encrypted msgs. a...
It's unclear to me if there are multiple problems, or a single one, (and just what that problem is) with servers incorrectly negotiating down from a client offering 1.1 or 1.2 to something they support like SSL 3 or TLS 1.0.
Eric Lawrence has said that some version outright choke on TLS 1.1 and ...
I am one of the authors and the current maintainer of eCryptfs, a cryptographic filesystem for Linux. It's been in the Linux kernel since about 2006. It's the cryptographic filesystem used by default on Ubuntu if you choose to "Encrypt your Home Directory", as well as by ChromeOS.
I'd like to ...
@dustinkirkland Hi Dustin, ninefingers here, one of the AU mods (@@2042) suggested chat might be an easier idea - want to wander in here and we can just check about what's on topic etc?
So the topic (before I steer this too far away) here is what are we doing with an ecryptfs migration from LaunchPad? I'm going to be rude and jump in with: what are your views on in @Ninefingers?
@Oli I personally don't see a problem with it if they're proper questions and answers - provided he understands that users may edit/alter/provide additional answers etc and that it is not a support forum (so don't tell users "post your bug reports here) I don't see any real problem.
From an end user perspective, the only thing is finding the right place :)
To be honest, it sounds like he's wanting to move his existing Q&A to SE and then benefit in future from the usual Q&A process of SE, which is a win both ways.
I assume there's going to be some duality in that, based on the question. If it's how do I do X in Ubuntu, it's going to be more our thing... If it's less so, it might be more U&L or if it's underlying technical/theory, Crypto
But that he's approached Crypto (when he almost certainly knows about AU) should be some indicator (not wanting to put words in his mouth) of where he wants to go with this.
@Ninefingers We did something similar with Mythbuntu recently. They opted for Ask Ubuntu but it's all about where the maintiner and the moderators thinks ecryptfs would work best then making a policy to keep those questions on that site mainly. If dustin is willing to take stewardship of ecryptfs on AU, U&L, and Crypto then that's fine too
@MarcoCeppi I agree. In my opinion, I think AU or UL (or both) would probably, looking at those questions, be a more likely "main page" - but there would be one or two for here.
as you and others have noted, the tricky part will be getting the answers to the right place (and making sure the users understand where they're getting to )
It looks like he wants to change the "ask a question" link to point to a particular site, so giving him a breakdown of which question belongs where might not work
If there's overlap there's not much choice though. I guess he could make a page with links to different SE sites depending on what the question is about
I'm going to go against the grain here: I don't like it. It's one thing for SO to be a user-to-user forum so that fellow developers can help solve problems, but I don't think it's really appropriate for reporting bugs and making feature requests for technology vendors (whether open source contrib...
he quotes the Guava's support options:
> Where-to-post summary: •How do I? -- StackOverflow! •I got this error, why? -- StackOverflow! •I got this error and I'm sure it's a bug -- file an issue! •I have an idea/request -- file an issue! •Why do you? -- the mailing list! •When will you? -- the mailing list! •You suck and I hate you -- contact us privately at me@glennbeck.com! •You're awesome -- aw shucks!
Well, he said " I don't think it's really appropriate for reporting bugs and making feature requests", which is true; I don't think anyone was arguing that that's a good idea
I think most questions are going to be fine on UL and AU. I doubt many users are going to be asking about the underlying cryptography; it's going to be "how do I make eCryptFS do X"
I am one of the authors and the current maintainer of eCryptfs, a cryptographic filesystem for Linux. It's been in the Linux kernel since about 2006. It's the cryptographic filesystem used by default on Ubuntu if you choose to "Encrypt your Home Directory", as well as by ChromeOS.
I'd like to ...
