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Driftwood: Know if private keys are sensitive

trufflesecurity.com
78 points·by orangepenguin·5 anni fa·20 comments

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orangepenguin
·anno scorso·discuss
I think there's a big difference between "activating" a muscle and "getting utility" out of it. Sure, maybe it activates sometimes, but what does it do? Well... nothing. It's a vestigial structure.
orangepenguin
·2 anni fa·discuss
This video from Husqvarna 2 years ago doesn't sound like it's a motor noise. Sounds more like an onboard beeper that can emit single tones. This, in my opinion, is rather disappointing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0_RPlSe344

It's possible that's some kind of motor noise, but it doesn't sound like it to me.

EDIT: I realize when I say "motor noise" there's some ambiguity. I know there isn't a gas powered engine in this little mower. Revving an engine is exactly what I expected, and this isn't that. When I reference motor noise here, I just mean sound could be produced by a servo or similar, but I don't think that's what's happening.
orangepenguin
·2 anni fa·discuss
Are you allergic to cellulose or amylose? Because those are the two molecules the plastic is made of. They're not making plastic out of gluten.
orangepenguin
·3 anni fa·discuss
All I'm seeing here is a commenter who has made a claim and won't support that claim with evidence. I wish they'd answer your question.
orangepenguin
·4 anni fa·discuss
Ah, yep. You're right. I overlooked that part. It looks like it's truly non-reversible—even if you don't care what the resulting input is.
orangepenguin
·4 anni fa·discuss
Maybe I'm being incredibly naive, but it seems like this would be trivial. Can you just start with the output hash and then essentially run the algorithms backwards? Obviously the resulting "input" would be random-ish garbage, but it seems like if all you care about is the output, you can pretty much just "pick" any data for the last step that produces the output. Then do likewise for the step prior, and so on.
orangepenguin
·4 anni fa·discuss
It's not security through obscurity. In fact, it's the very opposite. You can see the process exactly. The reason this is secure is because the process itself doesn't work backwards. You can create a hash using this algorithm, but you'll never reverse that hash back into the original text.
orangepenguin
·4 anni fa·discuss
What was the title previously? I'm not sure I understand the significance of the current title.
orangepenguin
·4 anni fa·discuss
In my experience, there's typically more than one "smoking gun". The problem isn't finding one, it's eliminating all of the "smoking guns" that aren't actually related to the outage.

If I worked at an organization with many teams deploying updates multiple times per day and several same day events seemed related, I would probably also put less weight on a gradual, months-long deployment that had completed a day prior.
orangepenguin
·5 anni fa·discuss
I had the same thought! Earplugs for the sound might not be a bad idea either.
orangepenguin
·5 anni fa·discuss
I asked my thinkingrock if it could think and it said yes. Really though, "thinking" is very hard to define. Do animals think? Do insects think? Do bacteria think? I'm sure somewhere we could find an example of a "living" thing that people consider to have thinking capability whose abilities are substantially more primitive than a CPU. So... why not say a CPU can think?
orangepenguin
·5 anni fa·discuss
Ah! That's what happened! I read the article and then came back to HN and couldn't find it. I thought I was crazy...