Frequency analysis
Suppose you have a list of encrypted surnames names of US citizens. If the list is long enough, the encrypted name that occurs most often probably corresponds to Smith. The second most common encrypted name probably corresponds to Johnson, and so forth. This kind of inference is analogous to solving
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Security-by-obscurity is a bad idea in general. It’s better, for example, to have a login page than to give your site an obscure URL. It’s better to encrypt a file than to hide it in some odd directory. It’s better to use a well-vetted encryption algorithm than to roll your
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Learn about features of CSS Houdini, such as worklets, interactions and custom properties, while building a 3D card flip animation. Continue reading Building a 3D Card Flip Animation with CSS Houdini on SitePoint.
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I saw a hand-drawn version of the diagram above yesterday and noticed that the points were too evenly distributed. That got me to thinking: is there any objective way to say that this famous diagram is in some sense complete? If you were to make a diagram with more points,
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On this sponsored episode of the podcast, Ben and Ryan chat with Maya Sellon, inclusive design and digital accessibility principal at Shell, about how she’s scaling accessibility and inclusive design practice across an organization the size of Shell. They talk about how knowing the accessibility issues is half the battle,
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