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Neil Slater
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Web developer, specialising in server-side code using open-source solutions such as LAMP and Ruby/Rack. Also keen hobby programmer for graphics, gaming (RPGs), and machine learning puzzles on kaggle.

I have some published Ruby gems: https://rubygems.org/profiles/slobo777

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18 Mixing Entropy Sources by XOR? Jun 11 '14
14 Understanding how SHA-512 achieves its design goals May 2 '14
13 When did Kerckhoffs's principle become fully accepted in design and practice of modern ciphers? Sep 24 '15
9 Tests on /dev/urandom entropy can be considered useful or not? Mar 1 '17
8 Whats the point of an IV if public? Sep 5 '15
5 Given $n$ bits, how many "truly random" sequences/numbers can be constructed? Jun 12 '14
4 TRNG vs PRNG - Entropy? Jul 11 '15
3 The example of Wikipedia on steganography doesn't work Oct 9 '15
3 How can a Vigenère cipher be broken if the message is short? Jul 10 '14
2 Where do I truncate the bits in SHA 256 hash algorithm? Jun 20 '14
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