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Tom Leek
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I SHALL DEVOUR YOUR HEART AND FEAST ON YOUR SOUL (so don't bug me).

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What technical reasons are there to have low maximum password lengths?
Mar 30, 2013
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How can PayPal spoof emails so easily to say it comes from someone else?
Dec 6, 2011
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353
How can I explain to non-techie friends that "cryptography is good"?
May 13, 2016
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263
How can I create a password that says "SALT ME!" when hashed?
Apr 22, 2014
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Password rules: Should I disallow "leetspeak" dictionary passwords like XKCD's Tr0ub4dor&3
Jul 10, 2015
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172
Why can't I MitM a Diffie-Hellman key exchange?
Jun 15, 2015
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167
Is "the oft-cited XKCD scheme [...] no longer good advice"?
Jul 10, 2014
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166
How do I know a piece of software only does what the author claims?
Feb 6, 2013
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ECDSA vs ECDH vs Ed25519 vs Curve25519
Feb 4, 2014
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SSH Key: Ed25519 vs RSA
May 26, 2015
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Gaming the site for Hat farming
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Multiple StackExchange Accounts For Anonimity
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Can I use another port other than 443 for SSL communication?
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Should I Use Base64 or Unicode for Storing Hashes & Salts?
41
What type of encoding can I use to make a string shorter?
30
Can self-signed SSL certificate be renewed? How?
23
Floating point equality in "Numbers.java"