* Posts by James Wimberley

2 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Nov 2017

Spies still super upset they can't get at your encrypted comms data

James Wimberley

Quantum cryptography works, you can use it to generate secure one-time pads over an open line, and IIRC you can readily buy the gear. The unbreakable part is guaranteed by physics not math. But it's pricey and too clunky for practical key distribution. Remember too the warning in the old PGP manual: there are other ways your enemies can get at your data, like burglary, kidnapping and torture. Security is always relative.

Red Hat opens its ARMs to Enterprise Linux... er, wait, perhaps it's the other way round

James Wimberley

Re: ObGrammarPedant

Isaiah 9:2. KJV: "The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined."

"Shone" won out for some reason, but I wouldn't pick grammar fights with the Lord of Hosts if I were you.