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Gitifying I2P: How to make git clone resumable

Have you ever cloned a git repository on a bad internet connection? I have, it don't work. When I lived in the Philippines for a year and a half, I had to clone repositories to a server of mine in Norway, for then sharing the repo via torrent so I could download it to my laptop in the Philippines. And it seems many has asked for this feature, or workarounds

I2P Git VCS
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Russia, shame on you! Censorship is lame.

Or in Russian; Позор Российскому руководству! Цензура это полный бред. NOTE: In the bottom, this text is translated into Russian by orignal from I2Pd. Thanks to him. I barely knows a word Russian myself. Before, I kind of respected you, as the gov. - But now you totally lost me. Anyway, I'm deeply invovled in the I2P project these days. And saw a way to help poor russian citicens reaching

Crypto and math
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R.I.P Return-oriented Programming (ROP)

Intel has this Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET), as of October 20th 2017 there are no Intel processors currently being sold that support it yet. But it will be available sooner or later- however for now, have fun :) Control-flow Enforcement Technology aims to prevent return-oriented programming (ROP) and call-jump-oriented programming (COP/JOP) attacks. The Intel-developed technology tries to prevent control-flow attacks by the concept of having a shadow stack to keep

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RSA key strength and math

TL;DR Since time is a factor here, \(2048\) bit is probably fine for most systems and users as long as it is replaced often, like let's encrypt does with it's ninety-day lifetimes. However for an CA I wouldn't use less than \(4096\) bit keys, and probably \(8192\) bit keys if they where to live longer than ~2030 maybe. Update: There are algorithms with sub-exponential running time for factoring integers,