Hence how the employee of a certain slot machine almost made himself
rich.. Alas, greed was more powerful that intellect.. Yet there may be
unknown people out there that are not greedy that are to this day using
the predictability of RNG's to keep the beer fridge filled and the tax
man at bay...
On 05/25/2016 03:54 PM, Eric Kuhnke wrote:
for serious applications, generating cryptographically sound "random"
numbers is quite a hard computer science problem...
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Random_number_generation
one of the main methods of attacking a cryptosystem is if the adversary
knows that the RNG used to produce the keys is not truly random, but
have some element of predictability in it.
On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 3:10 PM, Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com
<mailto:af...@kwisp.com>> wrote:
I think I’ll start a business selling random numbers.
Who’s to say 12345 isn’t a random number?
Wait, this sounds a lot like the fortune cookie business.
*From:* Cassidy B. Larson <mailto:c...@infowest.com>
*Sent:* Wednesday, May 25, 2016 4:11 PM
*To:* af@afmug.com <mailto:af@afmug.com>
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT I un-screwed myself
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/01/21/11-year-old-girl-sets-up-business-selling-secure-passwords-for-2/
On May 25, 2016, at 3:07 PM, Chuck McCown <ch...@wbmfg.com
<mailto:ch...@wbmfg.com>> wrote:
I unscrewed myself.
In windows file explorer, there is a view option that has a
preview option.
With preview selected you get the contents of a file on the right
side of the screen.
I was trying various combinations of my password and noticed that
on one of the tries, the preview pane showed some content.
After a few more tries I discovered that putting a zero in front
of the alt code allowed the preview to show content.
The file still would not open, but I could cut and paste from the
preview pane and I got it all.
Sometimes you luck out.
-----Original Message----- From: Chuck McCown
Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2016 3:04 PM
To: af@afmug.com <mailto:af@afmug.com>
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT I screwed myself
baby monkey puppy
-----Original Message----- From: Chuck McCown
Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2016 2:53 PM
To: af@afmug.com <mailto:af@afmug.com>
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT I screwed myself
I'll say.
For a new password I am considering:
inside housing puppets stay warm
oxygen puppet dagger manganese
electricity wire wrapped around the anus
Dong porcelain l swear
-----Original Message----- From: Seth Mattinen
Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2016 2:50 PM
To: af@afmug.com <mailto:af@afmug.com>
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT I screwed myself
On 5/25/16 13:36, Chuck McCown wrote:
My oldest son is a computer security specialist / forensic guy.
He was telling my my super complicated password was not so secure.
He cracked it pretty easy. He suggested I add an alt code.
So I did. Now, neither one of us can open the file.
Guess alt codes in passwords for some Office products cause big
problems.
Arrgh.....
But it's secure now, technically.
