[Dailydave] Some Sums

[Dave Korn]

On 05 February 2007 15:23, Halvar Flake wrote:

> Hey all,
> 
> apologies for having taken up space in your inboxes. 

  Heh, NM.... I wasn't really upset, I just wanted to prod you to give out
some clue :)

>  And where would one
> find a similarly large group of professionals that could act as witness ?

  Normally I just go round up a bunch of homeless bums from the alleyway
behind the pool-hall, but I suppose YMMV....  ;-)

> What about a general, publically archived  mailing list where
> people can post hashes of results to follow up later ? Anyone who
> has read the matasano blog recently (Ptacek/Rutkowska debate) would
> tend to agree that we need something like this.
> 
> If people actually follow up with the originals of their hashes a few
> months (or a year) later, such a list might be hugely interesting. Even
> if they just follow up with "the contents of the document with xxx are
> flawed, and I withdraw the hash".

  It would be interesting to see the amount that got followed up and the
amount that got withdrawn.

> Anyhow, apologies for wasting your disk space - I will look for a better
> forum in the future. Full-disclosure maybe ? It seems to be a
> widely-archived write-only-medium anyhow.  

  How about Usenet?  Google groups appears to have alt.test archived all the
way back to 1987!  (And alt.anonymous.messages back to 1994, and that's a
fairly good place to post incomprehensible strings of gibberish.  No, wait a
minute, pretty much the whole of alt.* is full of incomprehensible strings of
gibberish....!)


    cheers,
      DaveK
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