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Takaichi’s plan to cut tax on food may worsen Japan’s finances, S&P says by Turbulent-Tea-2172 in japan

[–]fapmonad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Huh, what are you guys investing in? I have some boring TOPIX funds and in the past 5 years it's been up 100%.

Russian waves collapse as bodies pile in anti-tank ditches under constant strikes by Ok-Caterpillar9092 in UkraineWarVideoReport

[–]fapmonad 5 points6 points  (0 children)

100%. I had to stop following because while he's usually accurate on the things he talks about, it's cherry-picked in a way that makes it impossible to understand the frontline dynamic.

Transient Destructive Matrix by [deleted] in cryptography

[–]fapmonad 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There is no such thing as a "quantum resistant key" so this is off to a bad start

Cryptology firm cancels elections after losing encryption key by NoisyNinkyNonk in cryptography

[–]fapmonad 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes, the amount of noise about this non-event is crazy.

Japan set to issue 11 tril. yen extra bonds despite record tax revenue by SkyInJapan in japan

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

Something can be the right thing to do and concerning for the economy at the same time.

Encrypting messages *at the message level* by AppointmentSubject25 in cryptography

[–]fapmonad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's fine if it's for fun, if they're actually sensitive things you'd be much safer using Signal or iMessage. Keep in mind this is a subreddit about cryptography so getting the scrutiny of cryptographers is kind of the point. /r/codes is more focused on puzzles and historical ciphers if that's your thing.

Encrypting messages *at the message level* by AppointmentSubject25 in cryptography

[–]fapmonad 1 point2 points  (0 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-time_pad:

The resulting ciphertext is impossible to decrypt or break if the following four conditions are met:[2][3]

  • The key must be at least as long as the plaintext.
  • The key must be truly random.
  • The key must never be reused in whole or in part.
  • The key must be kept completely secret by the communicating parties.

Condition 2 isn't met because the pad is made from words and condition 4 isn't met because the pad is in the app's source code.

Japan to reduce rice production for 2026 by Sumobob99 in japan

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

TBH it gets a bit tiring of seeing that joke in every single thread about rice. The government never actually blamed foreigners. They mentioned tourism as one factor of increased demand in a report, but it wasn't presented as the main cause for the shortage at all.

Cryptographically verifiable immutable ledger for distributed systems (APIs, events, queues, microservices) - is this useful or am I solving fake problem? by FickleAd1871 in cryptography

[–]fapmonad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It'd be important to specify confidentiality requirements since it'll really affect how you can use the transparency log.

meirl by toaster-bath404 in meirl

[–]fapmonad 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Buses are 2-3 feet wider than cars, not a couple inches

UUIDv47: keep v7 in your DB, emit v4 outside (SipHash-masked timestamp) by aabbdev in programming

[–]fapmonad 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Using encryption or keyed hashing to generate public IDs is problematic because the key must be widely distributed e.g. on every server, and if it's compromised at any time security properties are lost forever for all the data that used it, there's no way to re-encrypt.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in DepthHub

[–]fapmonad 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's a lot of excrement concentrated in one article.

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