From: Tim May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
... Another CNN guy, Aaron Brown, is actually refreshing in his
laidback,
Charles Kuralt-style slow examination of an issue...I ought to Tivo his
show.)
Yesterday I caught Keith Olberman's show on MSNBC when he was
announcing that Fox News will be hiring Dennis M
Status: RO
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 11:42:41 -0800
Subject: COWed news networks not showing Baghdad market dead
From: Tim May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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I'm scanning all four COWed networks--CNN, Fox, MSNBC, CNBC--for images
from the downtown Baghdad market an
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On Friday, February 28, 2003, at 01:03 AM, Jeroen C. van Gelderen wrote:
> Incidentally, the correct and portable (modulo compiler bugs) approach
> at the language level is to mark the array volatile. This means that
> stores to the array cannot be
On Friday, February 28, 2003, at 01:03 AM, Jeroen C. van Gelderen wrote:
On Friday, Feb 28, 2003, at 00:50 US/Eastern, Jeroen C. van Gelderen
wrote:
You are going trough a lot of trouble. What is your threat model?
Incidentally, the correct and portable (modulo compiler bugs) approach
at the lan
, Feb 27, 2003, at 23:18 US/Eastern, Patrick Chkoreff wrote:
void
clear_bytes(char magic, char p[], int n)
{
int i;
p[0] &= magic;
for (i = 0; i < n-1; i++) {
p[i+1] &= p[i];
for (i = 0; i < n; i++)
if (p[i] != magic)
exit(magic);
}
Wel
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(My PGP client botched the signature last time when I used the
clipboard method. This time I'm using the plugin button and it should
work. Stupid GUI crap.)
I have devised what I believe to be a foolproof and completely
portable way of setting an
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I have devised what I believe to be a foolproof and completely
portable way of setting an array of bytes to all zeroes, a common
security operation in cryptography programs.
void
clear_bytes(char magic, char p[], int n)
{
int i;
p[0] &= magic;
On Thursday, February 13, 2003, at 05:45 PM, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
Heck, go read some Patrick O'Brien Jack Aubrey Books. The Royal Navy
earned its own keep with prizes, etc., until long after the
Napoleonic wars...
Come to think of it, the rise of book-entry settlement cooincides
nicely with the
At 02:22 PM 11/8/2002 +, Vincent Penquerc'h wrote:
while (!is_all_memory_zero(ptr)) zero_memory(ptr);
Right, unfortunately the compiler might be insightful enough just to
optimize that whole thing to skip() -- Dijkstra's null statement.
Even Welschenbach calls "ispurged" immediately afte
At 02:22 PM 11/8/2002 +, Vincent Penquerc'h wrote:
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 08:35:06AM -0500, Patrick Chkoreff wrote:
> That's an interesting idea. You'd take the pointer returned by alloca and
> pass it to memset. How could the optimizer possibly know that the poin
At 10:20 AM 11/8/2002 +, Vincent Penquerc'h wrote:
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 07:36:41PM -0500, Patrick Chkoreff wrote:
> Everybody probably also knows about the gnupg trick, where they define a
> recursive routine called "burn_stack":
[...]
> Then there's the
From: "Trei, Peter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[Moderator's note: FYI: no "pragma" is needed. This is what C's
"volatile" keyword is for. Unfortunately, not everyone writing in C
knows the language. --Perry]
Thanks for the reminder about "volatile." It is an ancient and valuable
feature of C and I su
From: "Trei, Peter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[Moderator's note: FYI: no "pragma" is needed. This is what C's
"volatile" keyword is for. Unfortunately, not everyone writing in C
knows the language. --Perry]
Thanks for the reminder about "volatile." It is an ancient and valuable
feature of C and I su
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