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It's a Unix System, I know this!

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[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 2 years ago

those glasses are totally real and not fake just to make her look like a nerd

[–] Triple_B@lemmy.zip 13 points 2 years ago

PIN number moment as well.

[–] funbreaker@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

To be fair to this show, her speaking technobabble like that‘s probably the joke. Edit: missing word

[–] Tischkante@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 2 years ago

These Hollywood comedy writers are underpaid, wait a second.

[–] 018118055@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

In an alternate universe where Tor uses 3DES. Also 3DES effective strength is 112 bit and I can't be bothered to read up on why again.

Edit: oh, now that I look at the specification at the time of writing 3DES was a permitted cipher in Tor. So the captioned statement could be ... accurate?

[–] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

Life imitating art, I'm sure!

[–] BleatingZombie@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Can somebody help me understand the joke here? :(

Is it that 3DES doesn't have a 168-bit option?

[–] Zeth0s@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I guess the main point is that this not how one would mask an ip. An ip is masked by redirecting traffic via some intermediate server(s).

Once she encrypts an ip, what does she do, she sends the string via email to colleagues?

This is how I understand it... But I might be very wrong

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

Pretty much spot on

[–] BleatingZombie@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I guess I foolishly assumed she was doing her own encryption over https or something (I have no idea if that's even possible. I've taken one network security class)

[–] kyle1320@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Encrypting your IP address would be like encrypting your mailing address. Like, ok buddy, but you're not going to be able to use that to receive any mail so not sure what your goal is -- you're still going to have to use your plain address if you want to receive anything.

[–] probablyaCat@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

3des isn't secure. Even at 168bit. I'm not sure what this is from though, but it was only like 8 years ago that it was announced to be insecure.