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Re: Proof that "cypher punks" have complete degenerated...
Dale Thorn <[email protected]> writes:
> [email protected] wrote:
> > It wasn't worth commenting on.
> > Appending data after the ctrl-Z as stego?
> > Not even worth a letter to the ed!
>
> > Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM wrote:
> > > No one even commented on the latest Dr. Dobbs issue.
>
> After seeing the initial post, I ran out to get a copy, but they were
> all gone. I find it hard to believe that appending data to a file is
> considered stego, even by a commercial publication such as Dr. Dobb's.
> Can anyone confirm this?
I agree that Dr.Dobb's ain't what it used to was (they mention that Bruce
Scheneier is a contributing editor - a bad sign), but this issue was
worth getting.
1. A very interesting interview with Eva Bozoki, chief scientist as
Digital Secure Networks Technology. Among other fascinating stuff
she complains about export controls.
2. "The RIPEMD-160 Cryptographic Hash Function" (with C source code).
3. A nice article explaining Reed-Solomon error correction, with
nice-looking C source code.
4. An announcement of a free compression library (the article only discusses
the APIs, not the internals).
5. A discussion on hooking system calls in WinNT, allowing a program to
monitor system activity.
6. "Steganography for DOS programmers." Yes, it suggests putting data to
be hidden after a ctrl-Z, which hardly qualifies as stego, IMO. Not a
good article.
7. An article on extended MAPI 1.0 (I was looking for a place for crypto
hooks), announcing some inetersting code.
8. A discussing of publishing databases on the internet, including payment
systems.
9. A discussion if fractal-based compression (again, API's, not the guts).
Other interesting stuff with no crypto-relevance.
...
> I guess at the time their philosophy was something like "Yes, we live
> in a world of crap, so, since we have to make a living with this crap,
> let's deny that it's crap so we can continue to sell the stuff", etc.
> Kinda like *certain* c-punks, who have nothing to say, so they blame
> myself or Dr. Vulis for interfering with their degenerate doings on
> the c-punks list.
Byte magazine used to be very useful from the beginning to about '86,
when it turned into another Ziff-Davis clone. I have most of the issues
from that time filed somewhere. It's still relevant.
I guess good publications don't survive in the free market environment.
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