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  • someacnt@sh.itjust.workstoScience Memes@mander.xyzs p h e r e
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    13 days ago

    I am not a topologist, but I can try…

    A space (shape) is contractible if you can “contract” (shrink) it to a point without cutting, pinching or punching through holes. For example, a mattress is contractible, since you can shrink it to the center - each point can follow the line to the center, continuously. Meanwhile, a doughnut, a circle or a hollow sphere are not contractible, you can never remove the inner “hole” to shrink to a point without cutting.

    In general, any dimensional sphere is not contractible… Until it is - infinite dimensional sphere is contractible. Somehow, it loses the “hollow space” inside.











  • someacnt@sh.itjust.workstoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldThanks 🙏🏻
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    3 months ago

    Security by obscurity does not work, because people are only so creative up to a point. Hence, there are only handful of configurations for the attacker to try out.

    This contrasts to e.g. 128-bit secure encryption, which involves trying 2^128 times to break it - which is a number with whopping 38 zeros. It takes 10^22 years to break it with trying at 1GHz rate. It is simply incomparable, and adding a few bits of security by obscure combination is simply not worth it.

    Yet, so many people and organizations seem to prefer obscurity to actual security.