So on this test this morning one of the questions is asking me about some security protocol that I never got around to reviewing, and I have absolutely no idea how it works. So, I ask myself, How would I do this? And in the process of asking yourself such a question, it's inevitable to make something up that almost certainly isn't the same as the thing that you were supposed to study instead of making up. This is the explanation that I gave for how a user's certificate gets verified:
The certificate-verify message is the digital signature for the previous message, signed with the client's private key, so the server only has to verify with the certificate that the signature was made using the right key to assure that they are owned by the same party.
I know you're probably reading that and thinking that you don't know enough about computers to understand it, but you're wrong: it doesn't make any sense no matter how much you know. But I sure say it like I know what I'm talking about, don't I?
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Please explain "Triforce major." I like the sound of it and I'm sure I had one of those majors.
The Triforce majors are basically all of the things that you can study in college that won't ever help you get a job after college. They're named after Russ, because he's studied three of them: history, religion, and some other thing that I can't remember right now, but that I'm pretty sure was the most useless major offered.
That would be Political Science. So yes, Ronnie, you did have one of those majors.
So does that make me a Master of B.A.?
If you want to hear some major BS-ing, come down for my oral argument that I have to give in a couple weeks.
Oh someone new! Who's themanhole? Do we know you?
I probably would have said something about how the initial transposition is performed, scrambling the 64 bits in a patterned way so that the resulting 64-bit block is split into two 32-bit halves, then iterated from above 16 times based upon the key through a process of substitution, transposition, and mathematically exclusive-OR (XOR) operations, after which the resulting two halves are rejoined and a final transposition, which is the inverse of the initial transposition, thereby completing the coding operation.
But your answer was pretty good too.
Real faith honors Christ because it looks *away* from any of our own supposed “worthiness” and looks to the righteousness of Christ. We put our faith in the person and promises of Christ. If we have the wrong person, we do not have the faith. If we have the wrong promises, we do not have the faith. Christ is fully and eternally God, and he promises awesome things to those who trust in him, even secured forgiveness, a secured future, and eternal life.
Why do you humiliate me so?
I don't know who Aaron is or where he's coming from, but I'm pretty sure that comment makes him the master of B.A.
"Be what you would seem to be"--or if you'd like it put more simply--"Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise."
Let the record show that I got this test back on Friday, and that I got full credit on that question.
Actually your answer although obtuse is mostly right. Though such a system of verification is subject to man in the middle attacks, as no mention of a certificate authority was made.
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