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Stories · 3

  1. EU Pushes to Limit Internet Speech

    Yro · Censorship · · posted by Hemos · from the bad-step-for-EU dept. · 1,256 comments
    minamar writes "CNN is reporting that at an international conference, the EU is urging the US and other nations to ban racist and 'hate' messages from the internet. The US seems to be resisting, but is this another step away from free speech and how could an international group possibly regulate message on the internet anyway?"

  2. When Brains Meet Computer Brawn

    Tech · Technology · · posted by michael · from the steve-austin-would-be-proud dept. · 132 comments
    prankster writes "News.com has an interesting story on among other things collective minds and nanotechnology based on the 405 page report "Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance: Nanotechnology, Biotechnology, Information Technology, and Cognitive Science," from the National Science Foundation and the Department of Commerce. A quote: "The human body will be more durable, healthy, energetic, easier to repair and resistant to many kinds of stress, biological threat and (the) aging process." The story even mentions our favourite enemy - the Borgs."

  3. Ask Slashdot: Cryptography and Digital Signatures

    Ask · Encryption · · posted by Cliff · from the encryption-101 dept. · 0 comments
    Jonathan Squire writes in with questions concerning encryption. He writes: '...is it considered "secure" to generate an MD5 of a passphrase and then use the MD5 hash as the key to an RC4 cypher of a message/file that you want to send to someone? What are the implications of sending some alternative file with the same pass phrase used if someone who does not know the pass phrase is able to obtain both of the cyphertexts? What if they obtain both cyphertexts and one clear text, how hard would it be (computationaly/finacially) for them to derive the passphrase that was used?' There's more! Click the link below... ...continued...

    Here are the rest of Jonathan's questions:

    "Which hash functions are considered more secure/better SHA-1 , MD5, something else?

    What are the diffrences between RC2, RC4, RC5... RC6, DES, etc?

    Exactly what needs to be done to implement a digital signature? (procedurally) Do you start off making an MD5 (or some other hash) of the message append it to the message and then encrypt the message? Are ther more steps in between?"

    Sounds like he needs a good book on encryption, but can print keep up with the rapid pace of encryption technology today? Does anyone know of a resource that does?