• a neat hack for the properly paranoid -Your computer is likely generating random noise on your sound card. On some systems you can harvest this noise as true random entropy. This entropy can be diffused and whitened for use in cryptography.https://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2026-March/039388.html#Random #Entropy #Cryptography #Crypto #Hardware #Hacks #Sound #Audio #Chaos@cypherpunk@soc.octade.net @cryptography@soc.octade.net @crypto@infosec.pub @cryptography@fed.dyne.org @cryptography@lemmy.ml
Source code screenshot for harvesting entropy from a sound card. Follow the link to read the source code text.
 

@cypherpunk@soc.octade.net @cryptography@soc.octade.net @crypto@infosec.pub @cryptography@fed.dyne.orgJoe Biden gifted humanity with PGP encryption (in a roundabout way). Phil Zimmermann created PGP in response to a anti-privacy bill clause proposed by Senator Joe Biden.https://www.americanscientist.org/article/cypherpunks-write-code"In 1990, the FBI launched an over-the-top crackdown on computer hackers, known as Operation Sundevil. This was swiftly followed, in early 1991, by a proposed piece of U.S. Senate legislation that would force electronic communications service providers to hand over people’s personal data. (The key clause, S.266, was pushed by the then chairman of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, Senator Joe Biden.)""On learning of Biden’s S.266 clause, Zimmermann feverishly set out to complete the project, almost losing his house in the process. When he finished his software in 1991, he published it all online, free for anyone who wanted to use it. He called it “Pretty Good Privacy,” or PGP for short, and within weeks it had been downloaded and shared by thousands of people around the world. “Before PGP, there was no way for two ordinary people to communicate over long distances without the risk of interception,” said Zimmermann in a later interview. “Not by phone, not by FedEx, not by fax.” It remains the most widely used form of email encryption to this day."Joe Biden's first panopticon bill:https://www.congress.gov/bill/102nd-congress/senate-bill/266"SEC. 2201. COOPERATION OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS PROVIDERS WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT. It is the sense of Congress that providers of electronic communications services and manufacturers of electronic communications service equipment shall ensure that communications systems permit the government to obtain the plain text contents of voice, data, and other communications when appropriately authorized by law."As they say in Texas: That dinosaur don't hunt.#Biden #JoeBiden #PGP #Cypherpunks #Cypherpunk #PhilZimmermann #Privacy #Cybersecurity #Cryptography #GPG #Email #Senate #Law #Government #Panopticon #Hackers #Hacking #Security #Encryption

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FreePascal is secret weapon.https://www.freepascal.org/Features:LLVM backendtranspile to javascriptcompiles almost anywhere, probably even your toasterFAST FAST FASTWhen sticking to the procedural method the source reads like pseudocode. This makes it useful for writing cryptography and workhorse tools that require utmost clarity.When team Python sunset v2.7 and vaporized a decade worth of source code I abandoned Python for Pascal for all my personal fiddles. A Pascal program will compile and start while the Python interpreter is still warming up.

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    #DOI https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18448042A pangram is a sentence or phrase that contains each letter of an alphabet or character set at least once. A perfect pangram is an anagram of the alphabet which contains each letter exactly once.Pangram hash generates a perfect pangram hash digest consisting of a anagram permutation of a character set. Each character in the output is unique and non-repeating.#Hashing #Cryptography #Anagrams #Papers #Preprints@cryptography@soc.octade.net @crypto@infosec.pub @cryptography@fed.dyne.org

     

    The elitist plan is zero privacy. After slowly integrating AI with all your apps it will eventually be integrated into your operating system in such a way that monitors and records everything you do in real time. That is the plan, or the beginning of it. The end is much worse.#Privacy #AI #Singularity

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    The fallacy is failing to understand the authoritarian spirit behind purported 'humanitarian' causes, especially those that involve using the deadly force of the state for funding. People who worship the idol of political power are generally lacking awareness of their own desire to boss others around. Failing to learn from history is part and parcel of the matter. Giving government ubiquitous control over the food supply has one result, and history has proved it a hundred times over. Complain all you want about greed in the market--government is near infinitely greedier.

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    It is a solution in search of a problem. And it would create far more expensive problems than it proposes to solve. The Soviets already did this kind of thing--the same Soviets who deliberately starved millions to death with manufactured food shortages.

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