Thats the point of them, you cannot retrieve the secret key, as opening up the hardware on the card destroys it. Previously the only known way to brute force crack the key (in threory - there are other implementation specific exploits - remember ITV digital!) required very very expensive equipment and that doesn't work all the time. This is a revelation because now you can view the secret key for onlt 30 bucks.
But I quite like the look of these iButton things too.
Totally agree. The thing is that until ~10 years ago we had three channels to watch. An only with the advent of digital TV ~2 years ago did we get the plethora of channels we have now. I'm from the I have 4 channels of good telly why do I need 500 channels of cr*p camp?
The big digital switch won't happen for many years - that arbritrary date is a result of government think tanks that think they can see the future.
As for M$, I haven't read the article (had the Sat. Guardian which is a long enough read!) but you've got to wonder how much truth there is and is the offer coming from M$ Redmond or M$ UK. I find it had to see Redmond attempting it's media take out with "Monkey" Digital, and I don't see M$ UK having the business or the strategic power to handle it,
Open Inventor is THE toolkit for writing 3D scenes that use the OpenGL libraries.
Now that we have the Mesa libraries and Open Inventor is open sourced the world is definitely your lobster as far as desiging fantastic 3D application.
Watch out for tons of great 3D applications that will appear now.
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So do smart cards!
Thats the point of them, you cannot retrieve the secret key, as opening up the hardware on the card destroys it. Previously the only known way to brute force crack the key (in threory - there are other implementation specific exploits - remember ITV digital!) required very very expensive equipment and that doesn't work all the time. This is a revelation because now you can view the secret key for onlt 30 bucks.
But I quite like the look of these iButton things too.
Totally agree. The thing is that until ~10 years ago we had three channels to watch. An only with the advent of digital TV ~2 years ago did we get the plethora of channels we have now. I'm from the I have 4 channels of good telly why do I need 500 channels of cr*p camp?
The big digital switch won't happen for many years - that arbritrary date is a result of government think tanks that think they can see the future.
As for M$, I haven't read the article (had the Sat. Guardian which is a long enough read!) but you've got to wonder how much truth there is and is the offer coming from M$ Redmond or M$ UK. I find it had to see Redmond attempting it's media take out with "Monkey" Digital, and I don't see
M$ UK having the business or the strategic power to handle it,
my 2 pence,
Spudgun
Pick a crustacean, any crustacean!
Open Inventor is THE toolkit for writing 3D scenes that use the OpenGL libraries. Now that we have the Mesa libraries and Open Inventor is open sourced the world is definitely your lobster as far as desiging fantastic 3D application. Watch out for tons of great 3D applications that will appear now.