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Gerald Davis
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It occurred to me that a computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while software developers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match.

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10 How do we know a cryptographic primitive won't suddenly fail? Jun 4 '15
7 How many bits of entropy does an elliptic curve key of length n provide? Jul 8 '15
6 SHA-256 exhaustive search Jul 6 '15
6 What makes SHA-2 and SHA-3 have security levels half their output hash length? Jun 4 '15
4 Is "Bit Independence" of SHA-2 hashes secure? Jun 10 '15
3 How well does scrypt perform on different architectures / OSes? Oct 10 '11
2 1 Billion Bit Encryption? Jul 5 '15
2 Is it OK to use a hash of the key as nonce for AES GCM? Jun 5 '15
2 Is it possible to choose which point will have the public key of a given Elliptic Curve? Jun 8 '15
1 How much pre-hashing a password increase security against brute force attack? Jul 6 '15
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