1600000000

Posted on Sun 13 September 2020 in news • Tagged with unix, epoch

I feel like I am the only one that is excited about the upcoming unix time event: 1600000000 seconds since the epoch. But I am! ๐Ÿ˜ฌ๐ŸŽ‰


The simple math behind the extraordinary benefit of 8 sided dice for diceware

Posted on Thu 14 May 2020 in tech • Tagged with unix, diceware, security, programming

Most diceware implementations use 6-sided dice or D6. It would be easy to knee jerk assume that the marginal difference between 6 and 8 sided dice is negligible. However, in that case, one would be forgetting that we are dealing with exponential counting here and small numbers really add up โ€ฆ


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