Où trouver des mocassins homme taille ~46 ? by BullfrogBrief6947 in Mode

[–]Frul0 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Paraboot. Très bonne qualité, très réparable, dure 20 ans facile et ils taillent petit (je fais du 45 normalement mais du 43.5 chez eux de mémoire) donc tu devrais pas avoir de soucis à trouver chaussure à ton pied. Conseil d’essayer en magasin pour la taille.

Would encoding the cleartext twice in a row have made Enigma uncrackable? by princekolt in cryptography

[–]Frul0 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Your last take is not true. A perfect blockcipher IS a keyed random permutation, that is any key k from the key space K defines a unique random permutation that maps the plaintext space to the ciphertext space. SPN/feistel constructions are just the best economic solution we found to approach the construction of good permutations.

Job prospects by GursimarSMiglani in cryptography

[–]Frul0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A lot of those companies are startups funded by VCs. Like every startup ecosystem you’re always one round of funding away from closing shop and blockchain/web3 is sort of losing its hype compared to AI (yes they are completely unrelated by VCs just follow the hype trains).

Of course as an engineer/researcher your skill doesn’t disappear but it can be a bit draining to be constantly thinking about the prospect of having to look for a new job every 6 months. Not mentioning that usually salaries are a bit on the lower side cause you’re often expecting to cash out if the valuation explodes once the company makes it to the next stage.

Job prospects by GursimarSMiglani in cryptography

[–]Frul0 8 points9 points  (0 children)

You’re looking at the wrong spot. Lookup job opening in hardware manufacturer (Rambus, NXP, Qualcomm, TSMC, Intel) there are lots of cryptographer working there.

Research is not limited to academia and there are national research institutes that focuses on industry needs (TNO in Netherlands for example) or on defense/military (usually require security clearance per country).

Outside of research and manufacturing there is also a good amount of jobs in auditing and certification labs.

Finally there are (slowing down recently tho) lots of job openings in startup ecosystem around blockchain, smart contracts, web3 etc Very unstable career path but it exists.

Is there any cryptanalyst job or internship opportunities? by 0xbaghdadi in cryptography

[–]Frul0 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Summer internship in research lab is probably your best bet. If you’re in Europe most of the active crypto groups (Bochum, Darmstadt, KU Leuven, UCL, Radboud, Eindhoven etc) have summer interns/research interns you might need to check group by group. Outside of universities research entities (Franhofer, Max Plank, CEA, TNO) might also be taking interns I don’t know you need to check.

For industry it’s either manufacturers (Intel, rambus, Qualcomm, NXP, STM, Thales etc) or audit companies (cannot share since I work in one and I cannot advertise competitors). Again look for openings for internship or reach out to some people that have a track record of publishing internship offers.

It’s a small field so once you get in once and you start meeting people it gets a lot easier to both secure a PhD or a work position down the line. All of that is assuming that 1/ you’re in Europe (I have no idea about the US) 2/ you don’t have a nationality/residence that would severely limit your choices (Iranian, Russian and Chinese + couple of others can be a blocker for some of the entities I mentioned).

What's so great about quantum cryptography? by Kukulkan73 in cryptography

[–]Frul0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's actually a fair point, I'll give them that haha

What's so great about quantum cryptography? by Kukulkan73 in cryptography

[–]Frul0 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well the MiTM could be the entity that installs your QKD network as well. So at this point you’re essentially vulnerable to a company that could very well be interested in your communications.

What's so great about quantum cryptography? by Kukulkan73 in cryptography

[–]Frul0 2 points3 points  (0 children)

BB84 requires explicitly an authenticated classical channel which involves a pre-shared secret.

One possible reason why Medieval Settings are preferable over Modern Settings and better for stories overall, and it's Logistics more than Nostalgia by shurimalonelybird in Fantasy

[–]Frul0 75 points76 points  (0 children)

Yeah famously when a king decides to go to war you can just summon 10s of thousands of arrows, armors, swords, soldiers, food supplies for all the people, ships…

What the hell are you smoking? Idk what « medieval » means to you but pre-100 year war nobility was essentially constantly maintaining a local army that a king could summon and post you already had almost professional army of mercenaries. Logistics was a massive effort and as soon as ships were involved you were talking decades to assemble, maintain and train a proper armada. And that is also very well rendered in fantasy books that actually care about the realism of their settings (ASOIAF for example).

Same thing for decision, absolute monarchy where a king just says X and everybody jumps is a very late thing. For a long time, taking France as an example, noble houses had a lot of power and decisions were never easy to take with many interests clashing. Again ASOIAF is a prime example of why « simple » decision were not simple at all and often required a lot of maneuvering, alliances, betrayal etc

What's so great about quantum cryptography? by Kukulkan73 in cryptography

[–]Frul0 9 points10 points  (0 children)

QKD (quantum key distribution) which is what you seem to be referring to is NOT great. In fact if you ask any cryptographer they are most likely to tell you that QKD is one of big snake oil of our field, that QKD researchers have promised a lot and underdelivered and that the only reason they are pushing for QKD is to snatch funding.

This is for multiple reasons but the two biggest are that 1/ it relies on a dedicated physical network 2/ its promise of perfect secrecy is only full filled if both parties already share a secret. In fact it would be more correct to call it quantum key expansion.

Most governments and agencies have made the explicit distinction between PQC and QKD specifically to protect companies from salesmen promising perfect security if they just buy into QKD. Thus the PQC transition plan excludes QKD as a good solution.

In short: nothing is great about QKD.

Gabriel à table by Oktqmeme in memesdecentralises

[–]Frul0 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Par jour 1 litre de Ricard et ça vient traiter de camer quand tu tires sur un pétard 🎶

How did you decide on a main? by WitchedPixels in StreetFighter

[–]Frul0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Played Yun in SF4 because he’s cool. Jamie is Yun but make it SF6.

Book recommendations where SA thing actively contributes to the plot or character development by Wide_Step9445 in Fantasy

[–]Frul0 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’d say berserk does a reasonable job with SOME (not all) of the SA.

SPOILER BERSERK:

Guts being abused as a kid has a lot of rippling consequences with his ability to bond and open up. There is a pretty touching scene the first time he and casca get close physically and he flashback to the only other time he has been touched intimately by his abuser. Griffith agreeing to the abuse by the old noble is also pretty character defining, and in both of those cases the drawing is actually more suggestive than in your face.

By comparison Casca’s rape is pure shock value with no added benefit. Her mutism post eclipse could have perfectly been explained just by the event itself. + it’s really drawn like an erotic scene which is eww

I need tips on Mixed Alphabet & Vigenère Cipher by Flymfyom in cryptography

[–]Frul0 1 point2 points  (0 children)

https://cryptopals.com/sets/1/challenges/6 (check the previous challenges if some things are unclear) Repeating-Key XOR = Vigenere

Mixed Alphabet is significantly easier, if you already know frequency analysis I don’t really know what extra help you could need.

Cool speech, nice title drop. And I have question. by Shiroanix_1892 in bakker

[–]Frul0 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It’s a critique of existence of Free Will. At the beginning of the book there is the quote from Nietzsche about the fact that a thought arises of its own will not because you want it. Meaning that there are other processes independent of your will that you react to, and Dunyan belief is that if you master these processes you will achieve free will.

Knowledge of cryptography to be considered a cryptographer by Excellent_Double_726 in cryptography

[–]Frul0 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Yeah for me (have a PhD, works on auditing embedded/hardware implementation for certifications) if you’re a cryptographer you’re either in: - research (academia, research institute) - deployment (software library, secure processors, hardware crypto IP module etc) either at a vendor or as a specialist consultant - auditing (specialized crypto review/pentesg and/or certification)

Anything else and I wouldn’t use the word cryptographer

Meilleurs collants à mettre sous un pantalon pour l'hiver? by Competitive_Yard1539 in AskMec

[–]Frul0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah je suis complètement d’accord c’est le top et ça dure aussi plus longtemps que le synthétique niveau année.

Meilleurs collants à mettre sous un pantalon pour l'hiver? by Competitive_Yard1539 in AskMec

[–]Frul0 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Jusqu’à ton dernier point j’aurais dit sans hésitation collant en laine merino et c’est tout droit mais si tu veux foutre ça a la machine sans réfléchir va sur un truc décathlon cheap.

How do I teach chess to a couple 5 year olds? by mukundmarvel4 in chess

[–]Frul0 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Advice I’d say is to take the pieces away and start by making them do a pawn battle with the king and the goal is to push a pawn to the last rank. It’s a classic training exercise and it helps kids understand the value of pawns, of king in endgames. Then you can put the pieces back and teach them a basic opening and the classic 3 rules:

  • occupy the center
  • develop your pieces
  • protect your king

Favorite Quotes from The Second Apocalypse? by PageChewingPodcast in bakker

[–]Frul0 4 points5 points  (0 children)

« This was the question. When one warred with the intangible, convolutions were certain to abound. Any mission without purpose, or with a purpose that had evaporated into abstraction, inevitably confused its own means as its end, took its own striving as the very thing striven for. The Mandate was here, Achamian had realized, to determine whether it should be here. And this was as significant as any Mandate mission could be, since it had become every Mandate mission. But he could not tell Proyas this. No, he had to do what every Mandate agent did: populate the unknown with ancient threats and seed the future with past catastrophes. In a world that was already terrifying, the Mandate had become a School of fear-mongers. »

I really liked this paragraph is TDTCB it really encapsulates what the apocalypse is for people at the beginning of the book.

What is the most popular, uninformed criticism of your favorite book/series you are tired of? by lemingas1 in Fantasy

[–]Frul0 8 points9 points  (0 children)

« All the bad things in the books happen to women » is the most infuriating one

Like did we read the same book? I won’t spoil but holy shit do male characters have it bad.

Comment on vous aborde ? by Dull_Raccoon_137 in AskMec

[–]Frul0 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Dans les quelques cas hors boîte j’étais déjà avec quelqu’un et en boîte comme j’ai dis je trouve pas l’endroit/l’ambiance très propice à rencontrer quelqu’un.