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| | In 1974, Ted Nelson self-published a very unusual book. Nelson lectured on sociology at the University of Illinois at Chicago to pay the bills, but his true calling was as a technological revolutionary. In the 1960s, he had dreamed up a computer-based writing system which would preserve links among different documents. He called the concept...
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| | On August 12th, 1981, IBM announced its first PC. That makes today the thirtieth anniversary of the platform that's sometimes been called the PC clone, IBM PC compatible, or Wintel...but is most often simply called the PC. We started our celebration on Thursday with Benj Edwards' look at PC oddities such as Bill Gates's donkey-avoidance...
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| | CONTENTS The Apple III Project The Appler IIe: Beginnings Hardware Firmware Success Modifications The Enhanced IIe The Platinum IIe The Day The Music Died IIe Emulation Timeline Notes THE APPLE III...
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| When people talk about PBKDFs (Password Based Key Derivation Functions), this is usually either in the context of secure password storage, or in the context of how to derive cryptographic keys from potentially low-entropy passwords. The Password Hashing Competition (PHC, 2013-2015) was an open competition to derive new password hashing algorithms, resulting in Argon2 hash as its winner. Apart from achieving general hash security, many of the candidates focused on achieving resistance to parallel attacks ...