nostrademons reports that #Google’s biggest regret was not using #ECC RAM in their early cheap servers, because, “If you look through the source code & postmortems from that era of Google, there are all sorts of nasty hacks and system design constraints that arose from the fact that you couldn’t trust the bits that your RAM gave back to you.” #fault-tolerance
on 02026-04-09different threat models in #crypto #security, and some surprising (to me) weaknesses in #AES as it’s usually used. Interesting to note that Bernstein doesn’t seem to be daunted by the NSA backing off on #ECC. In fact, he doesn’t even mention it.
on 02015-11-20