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ASCII, oh ASCII! Wherefore art thou, ASCII?

ASCII, oh ASCII! Wherefore art thou, ASCII? The original line copied by an infamous English poet Puns aside, in the XXI century there are still need to stick to plain, old 7 bit ASCII character table. Many industrial applications stick to it for its simplicity. Unicode is often an overkill in that situations.

6 Popular PostgreSQL CLI Libraries

6 Popular PostgreSQL CLI Libraries pgcli – Postgres CLI with autocompletion and syntax highlighting pgsh – Branch your PostgreSQL Database like Git psql – The built-in PostgreSQL CLI client psql2csv – Run a query in psql and output the result as CSV nancy – The Nancy CLI is a unified way to manage automated database…

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NTRU – Software

According to Wikipedia

NTRU is an open-source public-key cryptosystem that uses lattice-based cryptography to encrypt and decrypt data.

Unlike other popular public-key cryptosystems, it is resistant to attacks using Shor’s algorithm.

NTRUEncrypt was patented, but it was placed in the public domain in 2017. NTRUSign is patented, but it can be used by software under the GPL.[1][2]

So this quantum resistant crypto algorithim is either public domain – which is good – or it’s signing version is patented but usable in GPL-licensed software. I must