"Why would characters spend time answering imaginary questions to fictional hypotheticals?" ... There is a certain genre of "Hot Network Questions" titles which make me cringe
Imagine an evil dictator. He imprisons his enemies in a labor camp, but they never do any work! He doesn't want to torture them, or force them to do that since he is using all of his soldiers to build him a beautiful castle. Instead, he decides to create an incentive: every time you do a certain ...
Basically, how do I make a coin operated turnstile that can't be cheated with no human guards and using only medieval technology...
That question raises so many other questions. How high-tech is too high-tech? Why do you care if occasionally two super skinny people cheat the system? How do you make a coin operated device with that level of technology? If you give people access to stone or wood cutting tools and have no human involvement what's stopping counterfeit coin making?
That's kind of sort of loosely crypto related. I mean that people propose that kind of stuff all the time. People seem to think biometric stuff is secure to use everywhere for some reason. (Even without guards to look for tampering or unusual behavior.)
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Anonymous
8:59 PM
Hey! If I have an AES IV, how would that benefit me? :p
Anonymous
I'm doing a CTF, I've got a POA in-front of me but the code that is running on the server has a hardcoded IV.
Anonymous
I'm just wondering how that helps me if at all...? I am fairly certain it does help me.
Anonymous
So I know that an IV should be randomly generated.
Anonymous
But I am not sure how I would attack the fact that it is hardcoded from a crypto perspective.