| IceShaman | cryptography is inherently a cat and mouse game anyway |
| Patterner | I CAN COMPRESS ANYTHING TO 100 BYTES!!1 but anybody who hides the algorithm has already lost :) |
| fbred | xor ftw |
| Woosta | One-way compression is easy |
| Caelum | quantum cryptography will make things interesting |
| Yaakov | Quantum crypto is a really small thing. |
| hobbs | It's only for link-layer security, right? |
| riczho | Well, there's perfectly infallible key exchange then, right? |
| Yaakov | I use one time pads based on IRC logs and cesium clocks. |
| riczho | Heh. |
| hobbs | an ideal OTP isn't "based on" anything. All I need is the function that you use to derive key material from IRC, and a calibrated clock :) |
| Yaakov | hobbs: You need to know where in the stream I choose to do the xor. It would be pretty hard to brute force it. Particularly since the idea is to gather the logs first, then choose the offsets. |
| IceShaman | it seems if you put the word quantum into any term its coolness factor increases by 3 orders of magnitude |
| hobbs | not so for "computer" ;) |
| Yaakov | I use nano encryption. With a Web 2.0 interface. |
| IceShaman | sod quantum, my CPU is going to be made from tiny vibrating strings that exist in 6 dimensions baby |
| hobbs | 6 is too few |
| callum | 6 dimensions should be enough for anyone |
| hobbs | you need 11 or 12, or maybe 26. |
| action | Yaakov prepares a qubit and calculates everything in one cycle. |
| Yaakov | prepares a qubit and calculates everything in one cycle. |
| hobbs | excuse me. 10, 11, or 26 :) |
| IceShaman | 6 |
| Yaakov | HOBBS |
| IceShaman | learn your string theory, the entire collection is 11 dimensions under M-theory |
| Yaakov | String theory is a dead end. |
| IceShaman | the strings themselves aren't Yaakov, it's all a dead end, you can never prove you've reached a definitive conclusion |
| jdavis | is there a perl module other than ODBC to connect to MS SQL Server? |
| Yaakov | My specially designed lightbulb that produces massive photons will conclude everything. |
| IceShaman | how massive can a massless particle be? |
| action | tybalt89 puts Yaakov's overweight photons on a diet |
| tybalt89 | puts Yaakov's overweight photons on a diet |
| Yaakov | The photons have the mass of a regulation major league baseball. Hello, tybalt89. |
| tybalt89 | hi Yaakov |
| Yaakov | ZERO POINT ENERGY WILL POWN YOU ALL |
| tybalt89 | Daveman: you rang, sir? |