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Trying to deploy WPA3 on my home network

Introduction

Recently, news broke about a new possible offline attack on WPA2 using PMKID. To summarize the attack, WPA2 protected APs can end up broadcasting PMKID values which can then be used to offline-brute-force the password.

These PMKID values are computed this way:

PMKID = HMAC-SHA1-128(PMK, "PMK Name" | MAC_AP | MAC_STA)

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Beyond librispeech: About the amount of spoken content stored in Librivox

Overview

Given that LibriVox contains enough of english content for a speech processing corpus, LibriSpeech, to be built from it, I've wondered how much content LibriVox has in languages other than English.

I've downloaded the JSON API contents of Librivox, separated the audiobooks according to their language, and summed up their lengths, obtaining a language breakdown expressed in spoken time.

This gave results of over 60 thousand hours for english, thousands of hours each for German, Dutch, French, Spanish, and hundreds of hours for other languages.

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Announcing cargo-udeps

One of the biggest issues that most people have with Rust are the long compile times. One of the reasons why compile times are so long is because many projects use quite a few dependencies from crates.io. Your dependencies have dependencies of their own, and they in turn have dependencies as well, and so on. This results in really big graphs of crates that all have to be compiled by cargo. Sometimes however, a crate actually doesn't use anything of some of its dependencies. Then those dependencies can be removed, resulting in faster builds for that crate. But how do you detect them? Often they sit in Cargo.toml for a long time until someone discovers they are actually unused and removes them (example). This is where cargo-udeps comes in. cargo-udeps is an automated tool to find dependencies that were specified in Cargo.toml but never used in the cra

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Postfix macros in Rust

The problem

Rust has many postfix combinators, for example the .unwrap_or(x) and .unwrap_or_else(|| x) functions. They are useful if you want to extract some value from an optionally present value, or if not, provide an alternative value. It's really nice and tidy to read: