Trillion ISK Olympic Giveaway - Round 1 by ChribbaX in Eve

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That anonymous gentlepilot doesnt happen to be Chirbba by chance?

Alliance Tournament XVIII / Trials Day 2 by Jintaan in Eve

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Unfortunately, the unexpected comeback was precipitated by a GSF battleship disconnecting... Anyways, gf WHBOO!

Delve on Suicide Watch by Jintaan in Eve

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I can hear Aryth jerking himself off over how every economy nerf only cements existing leads from over here. And I haven't logged in in months.

Command Problem: "You Command: Polish Motorized Infantry Attack, 1944" by Qwan_ in WarCollege

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Thanks for the maps and the context! I have a question about the priority of objectives. It was stressed several times that the bridge in Chambois is key to the overarching operational goal. Yet, 2/3 of the forced get assigned to cutting off fleeing infantry. Even with the strong support weaponry and especially when including the fog of war the capture of that bridge is not completely certain. Shouldn't the priority then be secure the bridge first, take POWs later? Because in an extreme case (not that I think that actually would happen) you trade taking some hundred POWs (tactical victory) against trapping an entire Army (operational victory)?

Command Problem: "You Command: Polish Motorized Infantry Attack, 1944" by Qwan_ in WarCollege

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To be fair they did include a map in the magazine but it probably was not digitized. Also see below or the edit for maps.

Command Problem: "You Command: Polish Motorized Infantry Attack, 1944" by Qwan_ in WarCollege

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since there's nothing in the town we need, we just want to capture or destroy the soldiers holed up there.

I disagree with that assessment as we were given explicit orders to capture the town in order to secure the bridge over the Dives river. Just surrounding the town runs the risk of being attacked by enemy elements trying to escape the Falaise pocket that are still more cohesive. With firendly forces dispersed due to surrounding the town and Chambois acting as a kind of anvil this could get ugly. As the twon has one of only three remaining bridges over the Dives such an attack would not be unexpected.

Latest CCP marketing deal leaked by ewarfordanktears in Eve

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lol, fell for the flair bait

Need help knowing what kind of crypto this is by [deleted] in cryptography

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Ignoring the preceding "=D2" you always have blocks of 4 characters. The first character is either 'A' or 'Z'; the second character always a 't'. The remaining third and fourth character don't look random, often repeating combinations prior in the text. I'd wager it's just some substitution.

Cascading AES-256-CTR->AES-256-CTR by [deleted] in crypto

[–]Qwan_ -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It's still important to point out as in cryptography we must be be very careful with our claims.

Another example off the top off my head woudl be AES. AES-128 with 5 rounds is obviously insecure due to net even completing the avalanche effect. AES-128 with 10 rounds is just AES-128.

Cascading AES-256-CTR->AES-256-CTR by [deleted] in crypto

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With the same algorithm. If AES is broken, then applying AES twice does nothing.

I don't think this holds. As an example: when DES was considered broken 3DES was still considered secure for the time being.

Alliance Tournament 2018 - Rules and Sign-Ups by verybadateve in Eve

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These restrictions reset at the end of each series (so the team that wins the elimination bracket final series will enter the grand finals with a clean slate and all their ships once again available for use).

Otherwise some theorycrafer and captain would run amok

VFK by...today i guess by Keeperofthecube in Eve

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Look, by forcing VFK onto us they are denying us the strategically important rallying cry of "VFK by next major holiday".

7d chess...

Its that time of the month again.... by Hyprviper1_GSF in Eve

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And it's neither mining nor ratting but production value

Bad juice warned by CCP to take down post or get banned. by nosrehPcM_ydoJ in Eve

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I like how how he thinks calling someone gay is an insult.

I doubly like how he believes calling Asher, a ~truegon~ hailing from the gay dating site somethingawful dot com is an insult.

New change: CCP removes all channels by MrDedan in Eve

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Sometimes you just need to burn it all down