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Check out the faq at RSA Labs. They have descriptions of almost all crypto stuff. Also check out Ron Rivest's Crypto links for everything on crypto.

The canonical books on MIT hacks are The Institute for Hacks, Tomfoolery & Pranks and "Is This The Way To Baker House?" A Compendium of MIT Hacking Lore, which are both available from the MIT Press Bookstore.

--bal

The canonical books on MIT hacks are The Institute for Hacks, Tomfoolery & Pranks and "Is This The Way To Baker House?" A Compendium of MIT Hacking Lore, which are both available from the MIT Press Bookstore.

--bal

The canonical books on MIT hacks are The Institute for Hacks, Tomfoolery & Pranks and "Is This The Way To Baker House?" A Compendium of MIT Hacking Lore, which are both available from the MIT Press Bookstore.

--bal

Actually, I'm pretty sure there IS a Tomb of the Unknown Tool somewhere in the catacombs of MIT. If I remember correctly, it is an implausible little room with a small desk in it... just write for tooling in solitude. =->

(PS. Just discovered a reference to the tomb in this article from The Tech, MIT's newspaper.)

Actually, I'm pretty sure there IS a Tomb of the Unknown Tool somewhere in the catacombs of MIT. If I remember correctly, it is an implausible little room with a small desk in it... just write for tooling in solitude. =->

(PS. Just discovered a reference to the tomb in this article from The Tech, MIT's newspaper.)

This link suggests that MIT has done something similar to the Tetris hack, but that it had an automated light pattern:

http://hacks .mit.edu/Hacks/by_year/1993/green_bldg_vu_meter/in dex.html

With the complex system they were using (creating a VU meter for the Boston Pops), I believe that an interactive game would not have been difficult to pull off.

It was indeed done in the Green Building.

actually, the tetris hack has been discussed for years at MIT, but never accomplished. the building targetted for such hackage is the green building, a 20 (only 18 accessible for normal people, i think) story bulding with the lighting configuration very similar to tetris resolution. the biggest problem is that in some rooms, one light switch illuminates two windows. also, if you could wire just one light individually, light would spill out through the other window, and kinda ruin the effect.

these are just a few of the difficulties, but you can get an idea of how much time it would really take to pull something like this off. if you want it all remotely controlled, dont forget you would need to install transmitters in each light switch, as i do not believe lighting can be controlled from one source. so you would have to pick roughly half of all locked rooms to install such devices (all rooms have windows, but only half face one side - assumedly the side facing the charles river and boston). lotsa time, lotsa money. it could happen, but i do not put it past the hacking community.

oh, and dont forget the Great Droid hack last year.

bisquit

It does look really funny. I was couldn't stop laughing when I saw it.

Many people here probably already have this bookmarked, but I'm astonished this link wasn't in the story:

Mit Hacks Archive

(Strange... very slow to answer.... Has it been pre-slashdotted?)

(Ah, there it is. I was afraid for a minute this was lost in the Land of Broken Links.)

Here's your best source:

http://hacks.mit.edu

Too bad the article didn't include any links to the Hacks page or any pictures.

Too bad the article didn't include any links to the Hacks page or any pictures.

1. Natalie Portman will be within range for all the grit pouring you need. (She attends Harvard!)
2. Boston baked beans make a good substitue for hot grits down the pants. As an added bonus, they taste the same even after festering in some AC's shorts all day.
3. MIT might pull one of their pranks for the occasion.

You might want to take a look at this page, at the MIT Media Lab. Some articles he has written on this subject are there, he concludes in "Will Robots Inherit the Earth" that the robots will be our children. From a conversation we had in Japan once I think he has a totally different take on robots/AI - one with a sense of humor, delight, and a sense of the faults of these children he builds - and emailed him to see if he would talk to Joy.

Can't say that I don't agree with what Joy says about nano and gene warfare and knowlege-enabled destruction.. though this doesn't mean there is no viable strategy to approach the topic. A lack of action at all will simply give more time for marginal actors to reach critical levels of knowlege and impose their own architecture. Perhaps his paralysis is due more to confronting the difficulty of weeding out the possibility of catastrophic synergies in Jini code (after all it's supposed to lend itself to synergies to some extent).. as if a sentient computer was able to hack together all of the Jini-enabled devices in the world, or if somehow they reached a critical mass as in older science fiction. Seems like Microsoft would be more dangerous since they've already done much of that in a banal human kind of way. Perhaps Joy sees himself as wielding dangerous power by fiddling with pervasive systems.. really pervasive that is.

I am no expert on any of the three dangers Joy confronts, but if you start thinking how you could protect people against dangerous mites, it seems on the face of it that either a compartmentalized environment (lots of secure sandboxes for well behaved physical programs) or a phage-filled environment (agents ready to themselves multiply like an amoeboid macrophage on a hair trigger and overwhelm an attacker) are some possibilities. For example one might imagine some way (they already exist really) to reliably tile space at high resolution and apply an addressing system keyed to electromagnetic broadcasts, much as PHS cell phones in Japan can find their geographic location.

Of course there are no wires and gates in 3d space, unless they are everywhere. You'd have to be some kind of idiot to want to have running nanotech outside of a sealed factory.. Some kind of agent probably will be omnipresent to guard against rogue mites or badly formed good ones and enforce the architecture. But all of these potential strategies come out of networking stuff Joy's been thinking about.. probably my own weakness in not having other models myself. Maybe in addition to information science and network space strategies there are different ones from the military, for example giving yourself a booster shot as the troops did in the Gulf War against chemical weapons. unfortunately, they got sick. Another model is the ocean, where coral polyps disgorge tons of embryos. Here things get more dispersed and potentially harmless the smaller and less mass they require. The only other model I can see is the Slashdot/Capitalist/Communist/Jihad Model for World Domination, that is, coopt everyone so there are no individuals who do not think too differently from you.

That said, if most of the nano and gene genre, plus AI, is based on software and communications techniques derivative from what we know about already, we are in trouble. Java was Joy's best shot at secure communication and even he is pretty adamant about Java not being designed for nuclear power plants and other dangerous things.. if Jini and sandboxes can be compromised or rendered impotent by soft that plays by different rules, you definitely do not want to bet your life on it. So I could see where he might be prone to the morose.

Now would be a good time to read Minsky.

According to this document they start having to replace satellites from around May 2002! (5-8 years working life, first launch May 1997) Someone check my details.

That will bite deep into anyone's budget. I would like to see this work, but I don't think they will get the funds.

I'd like to see it listed on this page, after Richard Stallman has looked at it:

http://www.gnu.ai.mit.edu/ph ilosophy/license-list.html

Linux would, I think, be a good platform for the server end of the game, if not the client. It could use a more real-time scheduler, such as this one, but even without that, I think it beats Windows.
--
Patrick Doyle

A. None of these sites contain any nudity.
and
B. Mattel is blocking the sites as 'Full Nudity' anyway.
You'd think that people would actually care when they heard stuff like that, wouldn't you? Check out Rei's Anime and Manga Page. It's blocked by Bess because it contains nudity.
Wha? Nudity? I can't find any there. I emailed N2H2 asking for a review--they sent back one sentence: That page contains nudity, which is against your site's policy.
The long and short of it is, people don't seem to care about this. It's generally shrugged off as "acceptable inconvenience," which has a lot to do with "I didn't want to see that page anyways."
IMX, Bess blocks approximately half of all anime-related content on the web. Somebody over there doesn't know the difference between anime and hentai, and tens of thousands (if not hundreds of thousands) are being mislead by their stupidity.

The right way to deal with this would seem to be to establish (as has been discussed elsewhere) a non-profit "patent custodian" that people can donate their patents to. Then have that organization use licenses for its patents as a lever to extract open source licensing for other key patents.

For example, if the GNOME folks had a few good patents, they might be able to get Adobe to release their color model handling for use in GNOME programs (and their derivatives). This really should not be an issue, since any GNOME derived program is subject to the GPL, and that means that most of Adobe's rivals won't touch it.

Also, to be fair, I would like to point out that I haven't seen anything that would paint Adobe as a villian in this area. They weren't too enthused about software patents six years ago, according to Douglas Brotz's statements at the Public Hearing on Use of the Patent System to Protect Software Related Inventions; the fact that they personally have patents that they seem not to have used offensively against Open Source efforts means I can't really ascribe any malice to them. In fact, even Microsoft hasn't used any of its software patents offensively.

I know you simply used Adobe as an example of a company that has happened to effectively be holding up progress, but I just wanted to point out that their interests probably mostly align with ours on the let's-not-get-sued-over-software-patents issues. I can't see that Adobe for instance has specifically worked to stop Free Software development, but I can see that their defensive patenting has had that as a side effect. I want the Open Patent license to be able to provide a way for them to safetly stop slowing progress without harming the defensive advantages their patents give them, as well as benefiting them by allowing them access to a larger Open Patent Pool of patents--I want the Open Patent License to be a win-win game for all players.

This is a more technical question of market dynamics (where I think that I can contribute something) rather than an explanation of the motivating factors associated with the open-source development process.

Although this particular question sidesteps many of the interesting issues (of why folks would want to do this), it makes a mathematical model of the dynamics plausible.

Since the model is framed in the context of autonomous agents, I presented it at an AI conference workshop (GECCO-99). However, I wouldn't mind getting some thoughtful feedback from folks who are more interested in the open-source economics side of things, rather than in the autonomous agents.

A web-page on the paper is located here, and the paper itself can be found here (PDF format).

This is a more technical question of market dynamics (where I think that I can contribute something) rather than an explanation of the motivating factors associated with the open-source development process.

Although this particular question sidesteps many of the interesting issues (of why folks would want to do this), it makes a mathematical model of the dynamics plausible.

Since the model is framed in the context of autonomous agents, I presented it at an AI conference workshop (GECCO-99). However, I wouldn't mind getting some thoughtful feedback from folks who are more interested in the open-source economics side of things, rather than in the autonomous agents.

A web-page on the paper is located here, and the paper itself can be found here (PDF format).

Here are a couple of good links on the subject:
http://www.bright.net/~dlphilp/lin ux_csound.html
http://mitpress.mit.edu/e-boo ks/csound/frontpage.html

I haven't the time to explain it further, but it is far and away the most powerful sound package I've ever used. Even without a pretty GUI for composing, it's worth checking out.

-Isaac

CSound is primarily used for experimental electronic music, but I have found it is also excellent for creating new and original samples that can be used anywhere. The learning curve can be somewhat steep (it is similar to assembly language) but if you are serious about creating original music you should check it out. A nice page to get started is: the MITPress Frontpage

Nathan Whitehead

Guys, there has been Unix virusses for a long time, the one that you need to worry about still doesn't exist.
Anybody remember blimp ? The Virus MIT developed to test Unix vulnerabillity ? That managed to infect and destroy files only in the directory of the user who ran it ? Keep in mind that Unix has decent file premision settings, a program is only as the user who runs it. Sure you could build code into a virus to make it hack for root, but a virus needs to be small, and that is by nature big code. The only major risk we face is that a lot of newer users still do everything as root.
The root users path should include exactly one directory:
/sbin Nothing else, no porgrams not installed there should ever be run by root. If you run other stuff as root, virusses are the least of your worries, your gonna rm something important at some point.
For a lot of good information on Linux and virusses check out Rick Moens opinion page at LinuxMafia.com I based most of this post on what I learned there.

Have you ever read Kaczynski's work? Yeah I know he was a psycho killer, but his manifesto is very well written and thought provoking. I hate to admit this but there is a lot of truth in it.

To understand genetic engineering you need to understand the technology and also the organism on which it is being used. A fair grounding in general biology, the model organisms used to develop the technology, the basics of molecular biology, some genetics and cell biology is needed. Most genetic engineering is developed by finding out how some portion of biology works, and then imitating it for human purposes. Genetic engineering is like copying source code--scientists study the organism (the original code), and then crudely copy it giving a new genetic engineering technology.

These links can give you a start, but if you are seriously interested, pick up an introductory college text with molecular biology, cell biology, or genetics in the title.

Here are some resources available on the web:

Primer on Molecular Genetics (Department of Energy)

MIT Biology Hypertextbook

Primer on Molecular Genetics from the U.S. Department of Energy

Biotech Applied follow the Biotech Applied and Biotech Chronicles links

(Small) glossary of genetic terms put together by the National Human Genome Research Institute

Info on research (with great graphics) funded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Jim Lund

Let me see, emails from 1996 don't concern you much. Hmmm, let me see. You're a Unagore fan right? Do you also endorse the Clipper chip and a federal crypto key escrow program as the Unagore does? If you want to you can check out the crypto stuff for yourself at that this right wing hate site: www-s wiss. ai.mit.edu/6095/articles/clipper/short-pieces/gore -july20.txt
After you're done there go take the test: Unabomber or the Unagore?

Download the software and put it on your server. And there's no reason to limit this to the US, people can set up proxies in any country.

And who says you get the images from the [sessionid].website.url server? You can still serve your images from www.website.url. And any other static content, so caching works on that just fine. Actually, this is what slashdot does. Just look at the source of this page, and pay attention to the URL of every image.

Fact is, e-commerce needs state. State can be maintained by using cookies or using session IDs in the URL. Up until now this was done using the path portion of the URL, or the query string. These people figured out you could use the hostname as well.

With all three these techniques you loose cachability of the object the URL points to, but this will not prevent a good site desingner from using static, constant URLs for static, constant content.

As much as I am opposed to software patents, the idea is a clever use of the available resources and techniques. And I don't think there is any prior art.

If you want to fight this, you will have to come up with better arguments. Have a look at "Against Software Patents" for some amunition. Note that this document is 9 years old, so the amunition might be a bit weak. However, some good public momentum behind it might just get something done.

Martijn Pieters, Software Engineer
Digital Creations, Creators of Zope

Matrox GLX support will probably make it in the first point release update. Most of the stuff is there, but I guess it needs to be debugged/tested properly before it gets the green light from PI/Matrox

Off-topic: I found this little GEM of a page in an earlier post. Check it out! It will change your Linux Browser experience! :-)

Bad fonts under Netscape is a solved problem };-)

While anti-aliasing isn't involved, I think you'll find these a significant improvement over X11's out-of-the-box look:

X: A Site for Sore Eyes
(go to the bottom of the page)

Check out: Three Common Fallacies In the User Interface Copyright Debate (yes, this is about Copyrights and not Trademarks)

One of the most forceful statements of the right to copy appears in the very recent Supreme Court decision in Bonito Boats. Inc. v. Thunder Craft Boats, Inc.: "imitation and refinement through imitation are both necessary to invention itself and the very lifeblood of a competitive economy."[9]

At issue in Bonito Boats was a Florida statute that made it unlawful to duplicate products using the "plug-molding" process. That process represents the most "slavish" copying imaginable. The competitor uses the originator's product to make a mold. and then uses the mold to make duplicates of the originator s product. In the Hand/Holmes tradition, the Court found that the Florida attempt to outlaw plug-molding "[erodes] the general rule of free competition."[10] The Court based its decision in part on the fact that (at least as to patentable subject matter) there is "a federal right to `copy and to use.'"[11] and that "`[t]hat which is published may be freely copied as a matter of federal right.'"[12]

As an aside, does anyone think that consumers were honestly confused by the copies? Do you think Apple was harmed by the loss of even one computer sale? Just because consumers aren't particularly computer-literate dosen't meant they're dumb.

fav Yunus quote:

Poverty is not created by the poor people. Poverty is created by the institutions that we have built around us. We have to go back to the drawing board, to redesign those institutions, so that they do not discriminate the poor, because the present ones do.

http://www.grameen.com/mcredit/weapon.ht ml

The war against poverty, in the long run, may prove to be the most profitable business on the 'net and planet.. it will obviously expand the marketplace for trading and sharing ideas..

re: infrastructure.. um.. in China, even with low annual incomes, cel phone usage ka-booms. Users pay by listening to ads. Sound familiar? Extrapolate this, along with Gilder's, Moore's, and Metcalfe's Laws.. Billions will have full access in a decade, almost for free. Since the 'net is a global medium and evolving jurisdiction, it will transform all goverments faster than we think.

Free software is sharing an increasing wealth of knowledge (power) without discrimation against the poor.. this is a radical shift away from centralized control and domination by force and money-as-we-know-it.. and watch out for freenet:
http://freenet.sourceforge.net
http://wired.com/news/print/0,1294,34768,00.html">

also, re infrastructure, check out:
http://www.media.mit.edu/unwired/more/ and
http://www.greenstar.org

I know that there are ways to encrypt phone calls, but are such devices expensive and where can one get them? We have programs like PGP and GPG to encrypt files and emails

Try PGPfone. PGPfone is free (MIT Licence, not GPL; source dosn't seem to be available) and allows you to make secure, strongly-encrypted phone calls via either a direct phone line or over the 'net. A definate must-have piece of software. Sadly, no one seems to be maintaining it (the current version dates back to '96). Be sure to pick up a copy of PGP Freeware 6.5.2 while you're at it.

To digress slightly, I find it annoying that PGP 6.5.x (unlike earlier versions) dosn't include PGPdisk, which I find to be indispensable; and does include PGPnet, which is of marginal utility (to me, at least).

"The axiom 'An honest man has nothing to fear from the police'

I know that there are ways to encrypt phone calls, but are such devices expensive and where can one get them? We have programs like PGP and GPG to encrypt files and emails

Try PGPfone. PGPfone is free (MIT Licence, not GPL; source dosn't seem to be available) and allows you to make secure, strongly-encrypted phone calls via either a direct phone line or over the 'net. A definate must-have piece of software. Sadly, no one seems to be maintaining it (the current version dates back to '96). Be sure to pick up a copy of PGP Freeware 6.5.2 while you're at it.

To digress slightly, I find it annoying that PGP 6.5.x (unlike earlier versions) dosn't include PGPdisk, which I find to be indispensable; and does include PGPnet, which is of marginal utility (to me, at least).

"The axiom 'An honest man has nothing to fear from the police'

And no, I never saw him sing Scarborough Fair.

Bravery, Kindness, Clarity, Honesty, Compassion, Generosity

And no, I never saw him sing Scarborough Fair.

Bravery, Kindness, Clarity, Honesty, Compassion, Generosity

If it is, he thought of it as a teenager, and convinced M.I.T. to use it on his official records... Simson was a classmate of mine, and a fine writer for The Tech as far back as the early 80's.

Bravery, Kindness, Clarity, Honesty, Compassion, Generosity

Another similarity is to the Leonardo Finance/Leonardo Journal case, in which Leonardo Finance is taking absurd steps to stop the 30-year-old Leonardo Journal from using the name "Leonardo", due to a similar situation involving search engine rankings. After reading this story about the GIF, I'd suggest that everyone competing in the Leonardo Finance Search Engine Competition name an image "leonardofinance.gif"...

Yes it is an important project because any programmer needed at one time or another to write a program giving a similar functionlity, resulting in dozens of thousands fo implementations that are mostly doing the same thing.

Seeing that the world was drowned under so much waste of programmer talent doing it over and over again I decided to create a project that would allow people to get free of reimplementing it and give them the opportunity to innovate in other software models. I called this project "The ultimate Hello World".

Yes, I can see your sign of relief to the thought that not ever again you will have to re-engineer this software and taht you will be able to take a pre-cooked solution that would solve all your "Hello, World" problems and set you free of it's mind-bogging complexity.

I think that as generous and visionary as you are you will understand the importance of thi sproject and understand what boost you would give both to this project and to the software community (by inirectly saving them from the assle of thi8s program) by giving 20,000 US$ to this project.

I hereby thanks you in advance.

PS: To contact me for the donation just use the e-mail adress given above my comment after getting rid of the anti-SPAM feature.

More seriously I think that serious candidates are:

1. the FSF. Without them we wouldn't have Linux and probably wouldn't have *BSD (because of GCC), furthermore a lot of people may not love Stallman but since more than 15 years he said the same message and you can be sure that he would us ethe money to favorise Free Software.

2. One of the *BSD, particulary if this is what you prefer. This would be great for them because they don't have the IPO craze there is around Linux and I don't think they would mind a little help. 3. "The ultimate hello, World" of course ;) 4. Maybe give money to people that are working not directly on Free Softwares but are fighting causes that impact Free Sofware, like the league for programming freedom which works against software patents, or the EFF which fights for the preservation of our rights online. 5. Split the sum between many smaller project, these are probably those that need more money because they are less known and attract less founding.

If your post was meant to be funny, it didn't contain enough hyperbole to be blatently tongue-in-cheek. So I'll just treat it as ignorance.

You know what Jupiter's made of, right? 92% hydrogen, 7% helium, mostly methane for the rest, those sorts of things. At the upper atmosphere, it's more than a thousand degrees celcius, and it's all whipping about rather harshly. And oh yeah, no water. If there is life there, it doesn't resemble anything we have on earth, and whatever we bring from earth wouldn't be able to survive if it got there. And then there's the little problem about how the spacecraft will burn up once it enters the planet's atmosphere, which is after all, all of it (except perhaps for the metalic hydrogen core, which if it exists wouldn't make a lick of difference here). This is in stark contrast to Europa, which doesn't have an appreciable atmosphere and so if we lob something at it, it'll remain intact until it hits the surface.

Soooooo.....What happens if the crash site is currently occupied with Life Forms that we DON'T suspect, hmm? So in an ironic ending to the life of Galileo, it crashes into a planet with life forms and introduces extra-Jupiterian life to divide and conquer.

Yes, it'd be perfeclty ironic, since it'd crap all over lots of our biological and astronomical theories, but that doesn't mean it's possible. You're also forgetting the little bit about how there is no "landing site" per se -- just a spot floating in the outer atmosphere.

Or, we could send it off into deep space, and discover it 300 years from now as a tremendous space probe named G'leo.

Except the whole problem in the first place is that this thing doesn't have any extra fuel lying around for such a purpose. If we could just go ahead and send it off into deep space, it'd still be useful and we'd use it for that. Heck, the Voyager 2 is still sending back data from outside the solar system, and we're praying it'll last another twenty years and make it to measure the helioshock out there. But escaping the gravity of Jupiter is not a simple thing to do without any propulsion. Have you stopped to wonder why Jupiter has so many moons and trojan asteroids in the first place?

League for Programming Freedom -- organization that opposes software patents and user interface copyrights.

Free Patents Pretty much what the name says. Patent reform. No software patents. Etc.

Patently Absurd-- Great, but old, article from Wired about the Patent office.

HTH

if Matlab-like functionality is appropriate, then try Octave (look for it on the GNU site)

you said you don't like Emacs. well, if your dislike is strong then I guess Jacal and Mockmma are not your cup of tea. they are written in Scheme and Common Lisp respectively, so presumably they are most convenient to run with the prompt in Emacs.

hth

I apologise if this question has already been answered - if it has, please point me to the link. Much of the talk relating GNUStep and OSX has been about porting - with a finished GNUStep, it would be easy to port apps to Linux. But what about binary emulation, like iBCS2 does for many SVR4 binaries for Linux? This could result in a perfect opportunity to instantly gain many commercial applications for the PPC versions of linux. Is this possible?

"The romance of Silicon Valley was about money - excuse me, about changing the world, one million dollars at a time."

Want to speak up against web patents? Join the League for Programming Freedom, fully endorsed by RMS and GNU.

Here are some excellent News links dealing with recent absurd patents, and essays on the subject.

- EraseMe

Want to speak up against web patents? Join the League for Programming Freedom, fully endorsed by RMS and GNU.

Here are some excellent News links dealing with recent absurd patents, and essays on the subject.

- EraseMe

There is such a thing. It's called FSV. Check out http://fox.mit.edu/skunk/soft/fsv/.

Anyone with a certain minimum of knowledge about how computers and / or the internet works knows exactly how preposterous the one-click patent is. This patent is no different in that respect. The difference is that this patent is so much more blindingly obvious that anyone should be able to see why, with minimal rethoric required. This ought to make it a lot easier to fight the patent in court, and let's hope that Amazon's competitors do just that.

The state of the US Patent Office has been long lamented, in places such as the GNU website and the League for Programming Freedom. I personally believe that although some of the examples cited there, such as the use of XOR to highlit information on a bitmapped screen in an easily reverisble way, are, believe it or not, not sufficently obvious to the population at large that the average man and woman can be easily convinced.

Off course, being non-obvious to the average person is a subset of the legal requirements to obtain a patent--theoretically, a new patent may not be obvious, even if only to experts in the field. However, it has been obvious for a long time that the US Patent Office is blindingly incompetent in this regard. Maybe this time, we will have our day in court, and win it too.

Until then, I suggest that we all chip in and make a link to the Boycot Amazon page. Have you emailed Amazon to tell them what you think yet? I have.

It's not complete, and it's not meant to be.

Maybe this will help make it more so: homepages for some of the software you discuss.

• OpenSSH - http://www.openssh.com/
• [Commercial] SSH - http://www.ssh.com/
• Kerberos Network Authentication - http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/
• ENskip - http://www.tik.ee.ethz.ch/~skip/
• Linux FreeS/WAN - http://www.xs4all.nl/~freeswan/

Anyone interested in the software mentioned above, or even just general UNIX security, would do good do take a gander at OpenBSD (http://www.openbsd.org). It's based on 4.4 BSD, like most of the Freenixes, and is designed with security foremost in mind. Think of it as FreeBSD after reading "1984". ;-)

It comes with OpenSSH. And Kerberos.

Ooh, and also... stickers! Put them on your box, and maybe the MiBs that break into your house while you're at work won't even bother trying to crack yer system.

Remember: paranoia is good. Anyone with doubts regarding the truth of that statement should check out the Echelon links that have been appearing here lately.

Ciao.

I am the Lord.