First of all, I want to thank everyone who runs this forum for the fine job they've done. While I myself have not yet had any need for help, I have enjoyed and learned while helping others.
Due diligence disclaimer: I searched for a discussion on this issue, using "tynt" and "copy paste", but found none. Hopefully, I did not miss it. Also, I searched my control panel to see if there was already a remedy there, but I found none.
Okay, now down to business
When trying to help someone, I can't even paste their one-liner into a terminal window without it causing problems.
Having to delete that in a text editor when copy-pasting someone's sample data is just a mild annoyance, but to have that in the terminal is just terrible. It produces junk on the screen, junk in command history, and in a case-insensitive environment with vim installed (osx, for example), "View Original: ....." brings up vi in read-only mode.
For the love of all that you hold dear, is there any possibility that the tynt tracer script can be nuked from orbit? If not, can the char limit before it kicks in be bumped up a bit, so that it allows copying a few lines of code/data before it kicks in? If not, perhaps users who have enough bits or helpful posts could have access to a knob in their control panel to disable it? If not, perhaps it can only be included on pages for threads that have not had any activity in a day or two? (I'm just tossing out ideas in case any of them are palatable.)
If there is no chance of this going away, I would appreciate an explanation. Not because it is owed to me -- I do not feel any entitlement in that regard -- but because I am simply curious to know why something with such an obvious downside is embraced (does it help that much with traffic and/or attribution?).
Any consideration you give this post is greatly appreciated. Worst case, I'll just go back to using the javascript-less environment I was using. The downside of that is that notifications tend to go unnoticed for days. Not such a big deal, I suppose.
Again, despite my first thread being a whinge, I sincerely appreciate the work the staff has put into the site. It's a nice place. Keep it up.
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I found this rather amusing. If you go to www.unix.net now you will see the OpenGroup selling license plates that read "Live Free or Die/Unix/Unix is a trademark of the OpenGroup"
(http://www.unix.net/unix_plates.html)
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bn_num_bytes
BN_num_bytes(3SSL) OpenSSL BN_num_bytes(3SSL)NAME
BN_num_bits, BN_num_bytes, BN_num_bits_word - get BIGNUM size
SYNOPSIS
#include <openssl/bn.h>
int BN_num_bytes(const BIGNUM *a);
int BN_num_bits(const BIGNUM *a);
int BN_num_bits_word(BN_ULONG w);
DESCRIPTION
BN_num_bytes() returns the size of a BIGNUM in bytes.
BN_num_bits_word() returns the number of significant bits in a word. If we take 0x00000432 as an example, it returns 11, not 16, not 32.
Basically, except for a zero, it returns floor(log2(w))+1.
BN_num_bits() returns the number of significant bits in a BIGNUM, following the same principle as BN_num_bits_word().
BN_num_bytes() is a macro.
RETURN VALUES
The size.
NOTES
Some have tried using BN_num_bits() on individual numbers in RSA keys, DH keys and DSA keys, and found that they don't always come up with
the number of bits they expected (something like 512, 1024, 2048, ...). This is because generating a number with some specific number of
bits doesn't always set the highest bits, thereby making the number of significant bits a little lower. If you want to know the "key size"
of such a key, either use functions like RSA_size(), DH_size() and DSA_size(), or use BN_num_bytes() and multiply with 8 (although there's
no real guarantee that will match the "key size", just a lot more probability).
SEE ALSO bn(3), DH_size(3), DSA_size(3), RSA_size(3)HISTORY
BN_num_bytes(), BN_num_bits() and BN_num_bits_word() are available in all versions of SSLeay and OpenSSL.
1.0.0e 2004-07-01 BN_num_bytes(3SSL)
04-24-2010
