Théophile Ferré was a leader of the Paris Commune who was executed by the French government on this day in 1871. Ferré personally authorized the execution of the archbishop of Paris and was the first of 25 Communards to be executed.
Little is known about Ferré's early life, before his participation in the Paris Commune. After Paris was seized by revolutionaries in March 1871, Ferré served on the Commune's Committee of Public Safety, a body given extensive powers to hunt down enemies of the Commune.
On April 5th, the Commune passed a decree that authorized the arrest of any person thought to be loyal to the French government in Versailles, to be held as hostages. Prominent figures arrested included a Catholic priest Georges Darboy and the archbishop of Paris. The Commune hoped to exchange their hostages for Louis-Auguste Blanqui, a revolutionary and honorary President of the Commune, imprisoned by the state.
Following the events of the "Bloody Week", in which the French government summarily executed many suspected Communards, Ferré authorized the execution of several hostages, including Darboy and the archbishop.
After the resistance of the Commune collapsed, Ferré was captured by the army, tried by a military court, and sentenced to death. On November 28th, 1871, he was shot at Satory, an army camp southwest of Versailles. He was the first of twenty-five Communards to be executed for their role in the Paris Commune.
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The RC4 community is dying, where are all my RC4-heads??
Now when we all aren't using the inscrutable DJB stream ciphers, we're using public key crypto impossible to understand unless you have a math PhD or block ciphers with parameters often seemingly chosen by vibes (until we find out an intelligence agency interfered, for better or worse) that people have to coax into doing the same things a stream cipher can do (everything). My system's
arc4random()is now based on ChaCha20, unusable smhRC4 was a proletarian cipher, everyone could implement it (though not everyone did it right), you could teach it to children and get them enciphering messages to their friends or generating {almost,once}-indistinguishable-from-random numbers with a deck of cards, ancient 8-bit computers could encipher with RC4 fastly and modern ones can make gigabytes per second of ciphertext without any hardware support, everyone could look at the algorithm and at least get a pretty good idea of how it works (continuous permutation of a state table derived from and according to the key)
Even when RC4 failed (WEP uses it especially badly), it let you get free wifi :3
Am joking hehe but I do still love RC4 for its simplicity and aesthetic value. I hope we can have a cipher again one day with all of its good qualities