Technically yes that is correct. Realistically, even the NSA would have a hard time cracking a 4096-bit RSA key (unless they solved the prime-factorization problem and didn't tell anyone of course). Brute forcing such a key is impractical to say they least; the effective key space would be from 0 to 2^4096. For the record, 2 to the 4096th power represents a number greater than the sum total of subatomic particles in the observed universe; the Sun will literally go dark before that key is broken.
First is key length and reuse. You cannot use the same book or whatever have you for multiple messages and the key must be at least as long as the message that you are encrypting. (OTPs take the plaintext, the key, and XOR them together to generate the cyphertext)
Second and the more tricky problem of the two is distribution of the key. OTPs are effectively a form of shared-key cryptography. Both Alice and Bob must have a copy of the OTP before they communicate. Obviously Alice cannot share that key with Bob over an insecure channel because Eve could capture the key and beat the encryption. Therefore, Alice and Bob require a separate secure side channel that Eve does not have access to in order to share the key. (Diffie-Hellman would not help here as the key size would be considerable for any non-trivial message)
Because of the extra complexity in sharing the key OTPs are rarely used in general practice.
Well, assuming you trust the NIST, they have a certification for encryption implementations, FIPS 140-2. Anything FIPS-certified is considered good enough to be used for US Govt top secret classified info
Depends on what kind of training and problems you throw at them. If you train your people to take on open-ended problems that require insight and creativity to solve, you will have good engineers. If you train people to follow a script or straight diagnostic => solution then you will have mechanics.
Technically speaking, key generation is outside the purview of AES, it just takes the provided key, a plain-text block of data, and runs them through a mathematical transform.
Weak keys will create insecure cyphertext regardless of algorithm, whether it be AES, DES, Serpent or whatever have you.
Key generation can be vastly improved by using things like entropy gathering daemons, user interaction, strong hardware RNGs, or gathering random outside noise (ambient radio waves or CPU temperature fluctuations for example) and of course larger key sizes
If anything that title would belong to microbial life by a very wide margin or insets (if you want to restrict it to multicellular life). Fun fact, the total mass of all the ants on earth would be roughly equal to that off all humans on the earth. Google it.
Your best bet for installing custom firmware is almost always going to be the current Google dev-phone (previously the Galaxy Nexus, currently the Nexus 4 IIRC) The phone is directly supported by Google and has an unlockable bootloader, no tricky hacks required.
What? You think us Joe Schmoes have any say in it? The US has become a corporate-backed plutocracy, if you can't cough up the "service fee" then you don't matter.
So then your nuanced view would allow you to be comfortable with the idea of a SWAT team kicking in your door at 3 AM and disappearing you off to who knows where with no warrant, no public trial, or even knowing what you have been charged with? Because some secret court, using classified evidence that you cannot look at let alone contest, has arbitrarily convicted you of a secret classified crime?
What legal recourse do you possibly have in such a system?
Never going to happen. To admit weakness or impotence is anathema for _ANY_ government. I creates doubt in the minds of citizens, leading to dangerous thoughts like "We gave up so many of our rights, we ceded so much power to you, and yet you say that you still cannot do this? What was the point of it all then?" Soon after that people will start demanding those rights and powers back and we all know how government regards relinquishing its power...
I have to agree on this. Generally speaking I am all for cutting back military funding but military research funds should be left untouched. The discoveries that have arisen already from such technology has already massively improved the state of technology even if it takes 10 years to filter down to the civilian market. Funding for research, regardless of source or aim, is almost always a sound investment.
Because we all know that in reality corporations are actually paragons or morality [/sarcasm]
Corporations are evil in the same sense that sociopaths are, the benefit or harm they do unto others is inconsequential so long as they get what they want. (which in the case of corporations is money, ROI, and market share)
RFIDs in the tires are a stretch but what about your RFID toll tag ID? At least here in north Texas, all tollways now use electronic billing systems, either by snapping a photo of your plates or via an RFID tag attached to the windshield. Drivers who opt for the tag are given a discounted toll rate. Coincidentally, the tag now uses a non-removable adhesive to attach to the windshield. (they used to use velcro strips so you could peel the tag off and put it in an EM-isolating bag in your glove compartment when you didn't need it)
And to many folks (myself for instance) those are two major differences that trickle out into other parts of the party platform and deserve mentioning.
Agreed, and the real interesting stuff is still to come. With everyone moving to ARM powered mobile devices one of the largest strengths of the Windows OS family goes out the window, namely 30 years worth of legacy apps. There is no way that all those old business apps coded for x86 WinNT 4.0 and Win95 will be ported over to ARM. Microsoft would have to create an x86 emulator/VM that somehow manages to cover all the weird corner cases and still remain light and efficient enough to run on a tablet.
The Founding Fathers were also men of education and history. They saw what Europe's many religious wars accomplished: human charcoal, torture chambers, a devastated continent, and no real resolution. Catholics still hated protestants, protestants still hated Catholics and one another. The Founding Fathers knew that inviting religion into politics is a recipe for self-destruction.
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Technically yes that is correct. Realistically, even the NSA would have a hard time cracking a 4096-bit RSA key (unless they solved the prime-factorization problem and didn't tell anyone of course). Brute forcing such a key is impractical to say they least; the effective key space would be from 0 to 2^4096. For the record, 2 to the 4096th power represents a number greater than the sum total of subatomic particles in the observed universe; the Sun will literally go dark before that key is broken.
There are two problems with One Time Pads.
First is key length and reuse. You cannot use the same book or whatever have you for multiple messages and the key must be at least as long as the message that you are encrypting. (OTPs take the plaintext, the key, and XOR them together to generate the cyphertext)
Second and the more tricky problem of the two is distribution of the key. OTPs are effectively a form of shared-key cryptography. Both Alice and Bob must have a copy of the OTP before they communicate. Obviously Alice cannot share that key with Bob over an insecure channel because Eve could capture the key and beat the encryption. Therefore, Alice and Bob require a separate secure side channel that Eve does not have access to in order to share the key. (Diffie-Hellman would not help here as the key size would be considerable for any non-trivial message)
Because of the extra complexity in sharing the key OTPs are rarely used in general practice.
Or alternatively they should have picked a different algorithm. I would have gone with Serpent personally.
Well, assuming you trust the NIST, they have a certification for encryption implementations, FIPS 140-2. Anything FIPS-certified is considered good enough to be used for US Govt top secret classified info
Depends on what kind of training and problems you throw at them. If you train your people to take on open-ended problems that require insight and creativity to solve, you will have good engineers. If you train people to follow a script or straight diagnostic => solution then you will have mechanics.
Technically speaking, key generation is outside the purview of AES, it just takes the provided key, a plain-text block of data, and runs them through a mathematical transform.
Weak keys will create insecure cyphertext regardless of algorithm, whether it be AES, DES, Serpent or whatever have you.
Key generation can be vastly improved by using things like entropy gathering daemons, user interaction, strong hardware RNGs, or gathering random outside noise (ambient radio waves or CPU temperature fluctuations for example) and of course larger key sizes
You forgot click-tracking, cookie tracking, supercookie tracking, cookie sniffing, user-agent sniffing, silent browser redirects, JavaScript exploits, browser plugins, and flaky third-party site builder tools *cough cough* Wordpress *cough*
And that is just off the top of my head...
Zombie? No, he obviously still possesses a malign intelligence; I was thinking more along the lines of a powerful, if perhaps portly, Lich.
masters of the entire earth
You're joking right?
If anything that title would belong to microbial life by a very wide margin or insets (if you want to restrict it to multicellular life). Fun fact, the total mass of all the ants on earth would be roughly equal to that off all humans on the earth. Google it.
This ^^ Sooner or later the plebes will wise up about Big (and Little) Brother and want to root their phone. Guess who they are gonna call?
Your best bet for installing custom firmware is almost always going to be the current Google dev-phone (previously the Galaxy Nexus, currently the Nexus 4 IIRC) The phone is directly supported by Google and has an unlockable bootloader, no tricky hacks required.
Cause we suffer from it but have no say in it.
What? You think us Joe Schmoes have any say in it? The US has become a corporate-backed plutocracy, if you can't cough up the "service fee" then you don't matter.
Generally speaking you are correct. If you want a pain-free Linux install stick with Intel. (This also applies to WiFi cards as well.)
So then your nuanced view would allow you to be comfortable with the idea of a SWAT team kicking in your door at 3 AM and disappearing you off to who knows where with no warrant, no public trial, or even knowing what you have been charged with? Because some secret court, using classified evidence that you cannot look at let alone contest, has arbitrarily convicted you of a secret classified crime?
What legal recourse do you possibly have in such a system?
And you are seriously okay with this?
You scare me AC. You also have my pity.
Never going to happen. To admit weakness or impotence is anathema for _ANY_ government. I creates doubt in the minds of citizens, leading to dangerous thoughts like "We gave up so many of our rights, we ceded so much power to you, and yet you say that you still cannot do this? What was the point of it all then?" Soon after that people will start demanding those rights and powers back and we all know how government regards relinquishing its power...
I have to agree on this. Generally speaking I am all for cutting back military funding but military research funds should be left untouched. The discoveries that have arisen already from such technology has already massively improved the state of technology even if it takes 10 years to filter down to the civilian market. Funding for research, regardless of source or aim, is almost always a sound investment.
BOFH, is that you?
Because we all know that in reality corporations are actually paragons or morality [/sarcasm]
Corporations are evil in the same sense that sociopaths are, the benefit or harm they do unto others is inconsequential so long as they get what they want. (which in the case of corporations is money, ROI, and market share)
RFIDs in the tires are a stretch but what about your RFID toll tag ID? At least here in north Texas, all tollways now use electronic billing systems, either by snapping a photo of your plates or via an RFID tag attached to the windshield. Drivers who opt for the tag are given a discounted toll rate. Coincidentally, the tag now uses a non-removable adhesive to attach to the windshield. (they used to use velcro strips so you could peel the tag off and put it in an EM-isolating bag in your glove compartment when you didn't need it)
And to many folks (myself for instance) those are two major differences that trickle out into other parts of the party platform and deserve mentioning.
...and they're basically identical except for looks and longevity.
The ironic part is that the human version (presumably) dies at the end of the episode after being hit by a car.
And you do realize that this show is made by Fox so several real babies were likely used as blood sacrifices in the making of it?
To borrow a quote from another geek favorite series: "I get it!"
For those of you who didn't immediately think "Futurama" I offer the following: "Ohhh....now I get it!"
Seriously though, clever reference, well done sir.
Agreed, and the real interesting stuff is still to come. With everyone moving to ARM powered mobile devices one of the largest strengths of the Windows OS family goes out the window, namely 30 years worth of legacy apps. There is no way that all those old business apps coded for x86 WinNT 4.0 and Win95 will be ported over to ARM. Microsoft would have to create an x86 emulator/VM that somehow manages to cover all the weird corner cases and still remain light and efficient enough to run on a tablet.
The Founding Fathers were also men of education and history. They saw what Europe's many religious wars accomplished: human charcoal, torture chambers, a devastated continent, and no real resolution. Catholics still hated protestants, protestants still hated Catholics and one another. The Founding Fathers knew that inviting religion into politics is a recipe for self-destruction.