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tarcieri / semiprivate.md
Last active January 18, 2023 01:08
Ed25519-based semi-private keys

Semiprivate Keys

🚨 DANGER: INSECURE! 🚨

This may have seemed like a great idea in 2013, but the repeated "set/clear bits", a.k.a. clamping phases at each level of the hierarchy slowly subtract key strength.

Don't use this as described. Check out Ristretto.

Original text

Semi-private keys are an expansion of the traditional idea

@return1
return1 / trim_enabler.txt
Last active May 26, 2024 11:01
TRIM Enabler for OS X Yosemite 10.10.3
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# UPDATE for 10.10.4+: please consider this patch obsolete, as apple provides a tool called "trimforce" to enable trim support for 3rd party SSDs
# just run "sudo trimforce enable" to activate the trim support from now on!
#
# Original version by Grant Parnell is offline (http://digitaldj.net/2011/07/21/trim-enabler-for-lion/)
# Update July 2014: no longer offline, see https://digitaldj.net/blog/2011/11/17/trim-enabler-for-os-x-lion-mountain-lion-mavericks/
#
# Looks for "Apple" string in HD kext, changes it to a wildcard match for anything
#
# Alternative to http://www.groths.org/trim-enabler-3-0-released/
@chrisballinger
chrisballinger / gist:3352890
Created August 14, 2012 20:50 — forked from quietcricket/gist:1593632
Fuzzy string match objective-c (Levenshtein Distance Algorithm)
-(float)compareString:(NSString *)originalString withString:(NSString *)comparisonString
{
// Normalize strings
[originalString stringByTrimmingCharactersInSet:[NSCharacterSet whitespaceAndNewlineCharacterSet]];
[comparisonString stringByTrimmingCharactersInSet:[NSCharacterSet whitespaceAndNewlineCharacterSet]];
originalString = [originalString lowercaseString];
comparisonString = [comparisonString lowercaseString];
// Step 1 (Steps follow description at http://www.merriampark.com/ld.htm)