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Don't Roll Your Own ... - Susam Pal

Among software developers, and especially among those who work on security-sensitive systems, there is a well-known maxim: Don't roll your own crypto. Of course, you can roll your own crypto for learning purposes. But if you are going to use cryptography in...

Topics: Security

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The price of humans

What value are we giving / are we going to give to work done by humans?

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sp.h is the standard library that C deserves

Over the past year, I’ve been working on fixing C by giving it a high quality, ultra portable standard library. It is not a simple wrapper on top of libc; it doesn’t depend on libc except when required to by the platform. To my knowledge, there is nothing...

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Comparing an LZ4 Decompressor on Four Legacy CPUs

A few years ago, I needed to save some cartridge space in a SNES project, and I did so by compressing that data with the LZ4 compression algorithm from 2012. I found that working within the constraints of the SNES allowed me to take some convenient...

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Announcing Isabelle support for SAW

We take pride in personally connecting with all interested partners, collaborators and potential clients. Please email us with a brief description of how you would like to be connected with Galois and we will do our best to respond within one business day.

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mikas blog » Blog Archive » The mysterious XF86AudioPlay issue

I was getting “ is undefined” in the status bar of Emacs displayed every 2-3 seconds. Nowhere else I noticed any misbehavior or problems, and also couldn’t find any related log entries. It didn’t stop, though didn’t want to reboot my system to see whether...