- sheet metal case (used to be part of an army 2-stroke fuel pack)
- 6 mm polycarbonate ('lexan') 'screen'
- aluminium chassis, doubling as processor cooler
- 2 * IBM Travelstar 20GB drives
- internal 12V->5V converter based on Max724
- external interfaces: USB, power, audio, modem
- IR keyboard
- DOC as 'emergency backup OS', it contains a small GNU/Linux installation.
I might choose to leave out the DOC and the modem, and go for an external USB modem instead. Anyone know a good place in Vancouver to buy stuff like that? I only need the modem when I find myself in the vicinity of a telephone, so I can put some imagery on the website I'll make for the trip.
It will be hosting a webcam which will snap a picture every X seconds and record 'interesting' sound events (hence the two drives, the trip will take about 2.5 months so I need quite a lot of disk space). It runs a slightly modified Debian GNU/Linux 'testing' distribution (currently using the 2.4.4 kernel with some USB patches). Agressive use of APM keeps power consumption down (eg. screen blank after 2 minute, I won't need the screen anyway most of the time. The camera will be mounted on a headband, or just attached to the canoe somewhere, and merrily document the whole trip.
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umm.. and when taco bell recalled over a MILLION POUNDS of food last year because the corn used was "potentially from genetically engineered plants that were NOT for human consumption, but for experimentation.". Turns out the entire batch was from that.
FDA is a fuck off agency, who has better quality standards than the "watch dog organization for reviewers", and might be a little harder to bribe, but follows the rule, same shit, different pile.
Mass bribery?
Why can I buy claritin in canada over the counter (shit, they have it in attractive displays in the aisles) for $10 Canadian (6.50 US$ with tax) and the same damn package in the USA costs $70 AND needs a perscription ($40ish, even if your insurance pays).
Bribery is called "campaign contributions" or "donations to the US Treasury" in the USA. Again - same shit, different pile.
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umm.. nafta has yet to take full effect. Please be kind of knowledgeable about a subject before posting.
That and the fact the Canada isn't getting that great of a deal. The USA has the most to benifit (from mexico). The canadian consumer has accepted an (inflated) price for CD's, when nafta takes effect, prices will not drop, but the recording industry's profits will rise.
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WTF is the pre-installed crap? I paid for an operating system, not to get 8 different ISP's programs. Bah, wonderful packing of sw.
AOL has too much to lose if their software isn't pre-installed, it was their key to success in the first place.
I think the millions of CD's they put out, and the mass advertising is their little secret to being on so many desktops. That and their "its easy" chicks.
"Microsoft has too much to lose if AOL moves over to a Netscape-based client."
Uh huh. I think MS should be more concerned about losses due to piracy than losing AOL as a "customer".
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When I say Hooray, but I doubt that will have a great effect of the number of people using AOL.
Incidentally, AOL (v?)did not work with beta versions of WIN ME, I wonder if this situation will be any different. It would be nice to see a MS vs AOL TW lawsuit. Hundreds of lawyers on both sides...
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It is truly amazing how some people are ignorant of history.
Violence (Bloody revolutions) are pretty much the only things that changed the balance of power and brought it to the citizen. Take for example, the british civil war, where the king was beheaded; the french revolution; hell, even the overrunning of the roman empire by the "barbarians" made the barbarian's lives easier.
The race riots were one of the leading causes of change in the USA, especially in the areas of race equality and civil rights.
Sure, sit-ins (now illegal) and non-violent protests helped (because people "not from the south" saw Bull releasing attack dogs on peaceful protestors, and using firehoses at full pressure. Sure, peaceful protests are good and noble, but the only thing people seem to remember is violence - whether by the protestors, or by the police.
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Puh-lease, puh-lease mr. red coat. Don't shoot me!
Violence gets attention - what protestors want to get.
It is truly amazing how some people are ignorant of history.
Bloody revolutions are pretty much the only things that changed the balance of power and brought it to the citizen. Take for example, the british civil war, where the king was beheaded; the french revolution; hell, even the overrunning of the roman empire by the "barbarians" made the barbarian's lives easier.
The race riots were one of the leading causes of change in the USA, especially in the areas of race equality and civil rights.
Sure, sit-ins (now illegal) and non-violent protests helped (because people "not from the south" saw Bull releasing attack dogs on peaceful protestors, and using firehoses at full pressure. Sure, peaceful protests are good and noble, but the only thing people seem to remember is violence - whether by the protestors, or by the police.
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um.. you can protest legally untill the pigs tell you to disperse. If not, they move in with body armor, shields and 4 foot batons.
Hell, some places you need a frigging license / permit to protest. The point of protestors being on "somebodies lawn" is to get attention, if they leave when asked to, (don't bother me), their attempts are kind of moot.
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Umm. I'm assuming you still have a job, unlike the several thousand people laid off in the last year.
You couldn't of have been laid off, because you obviously have not gotten off the "feel good happy pills" that your company buys you.
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so its ok to beat the fuck out of him for that? I thought the USA was supposed to be "enlightened".
Also, something about being judge, jury, executioner comes to mind.
Cops are not supposed to excercise punishment for crimes, at least in the USA.
Of course, your hailed democracy is one where you can be taken to prison for a minor traffic violation.
Rock On...
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I'm sorry? Was it the NYPD that shot an unarmed man OVER 40 FUCKING TIMES! There is also a difference between claiming that your country is "the best" and doing shit like this, and being an oppressive tyrant, who supports stuff like this on a regular basis.
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Umm.. idealistically, you are correct. But if you remember the last election, you probably remember about the lines being divided 50/50. Republicans will vote for republicans, dems will vote for dems. If someone does piss an american voter off, he/she will simply not vote in the next re-election - god forbid we should vote for the enemy.
Also, the people affected are not voters yet (because they are under 18). Once they turn 18, they won't give a shit because they are not effected.
The USA has a little thing called "recall", if you gain enough support, you can remove someone from office before their term is up. Look it up.
Ironically, people bitch and whine, but I don't think recall has been used much historically.
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More so!
We should have mandatory breast feeding until the age of ten!
And potty training should not be implemented until the age, due to the emotional pain kids suffer when they get yelled at.
Seriously, I don't see why this is even an issue, kids don't exactly sneak out of the house to go to the arcade to play violent games, they are perfectly happy doing this at their friends house, or even at home.
This legislation was passed because the politicans did not get their "campaign contributions" from the gaming industry. Lets be realistic about this.
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You mean, when they get drafted at 18?
But while we give them m-16's, m-203G's, MP5's,.45's, to go up against tanks, we will ensure that they are kept perfectly safe from the evils of alcohol!
God Bless America!
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How about a war on coward cops, who sat for hours outside of all the schools doing fuckal while kids inside were getting shot?
Shit, the cops at least had body armor and weapons.
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Ironically, the ones affected are a small percent of the population that can vote. i.e. 0%.
Even if kids remember who sponsored this bill when they are able to vote, statistics show that young voters don't vote; Their hard-line republican parents and "protect our children" democrats will do the voting for them.
Right, Baaa.Baaa American Sheep. Though I am not suprised - the US did ban alcohol, and still has a 21 year drinking age.
It is nice to know that the two major political parties have something in common.
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but what if the private key is generated once - at the factory - which I understand is the case, as it is a fairly intensive process to find long primes - my athlon 850 takes nearly a minute to make me a private key.
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1.)
freeboxen.com - awesome site - people will pay you to get rid of your old stuff. Free parts,
nm, scratch that, it seems to be down, kind of permanantly.
2.)
local hs/college computer club / whatever
- set up a beowulf of 486's or pentium 100's.
- hundreds of things to do - linux
- computers for the poor with win 95 (because you got the licenses for free) / linux (fsck licencing)
- keep the 8086, sell on ebay in a few years, or practice soldering/desoldering.
3.) (shameless begging)
For really cool, working stuff (200mhz up computers), I'll take it off your hands - really! I'll even pay for shipping! Well, the boards anyway. I'll take any working dimms for free too! Any HDD's greater than 1 gig are great too!
I WANT COPIES OF MS DOS 1,2,3,4,5 WIN 1.0 (exists?),2,3; NT 1,2,3,4
Ideas:
486 as a firewall / internet router and / or windows 3.1 demo machine, play gorrilas.bas with ms qubasic on dos 6.2
- learn about motherboard repair, get a logic testor, a mboard repair book.
286 - put Commander Keen 1 + 2 on it. Run demo in endless loop or untill you rip out the pc speaker cause the sound effects are bleedin' annoying.
8086 - put really, really old abandonware on it.
- calculate pi to x million digits,
Of course, you need a screen for this - so you keep 4-8 lbs of lead out of the landfill and get a nice space heater in one wonderful deal!
Hmm, old software.. some un named person in my college formats the hdd's of the new dell 700 mhz machines and places Dos 3.1 on them. Managed to install Desqview on a box as well (with dos 5). Funny as hell to see the software and the sysadmins pissed. Runs really fast too (except for desqvies, which sorta ran)
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Ok.. I'm not sure about the following part, but it sounds kind of logical. I'm probably full of s**t, but if someone who is knowledgeable about cryptography could explain my errors in logic / whatever, I would greatly appreciate it.
Firstly, (basic question)
Once someone "cracks" the encryption (it is private/public key based) encryption on one mobile phone, it any further encryption rendered "broken" from that phone, or just for data coming into/ out of that phone?
Secondly, (kind of mind trippish)
From what I understand, private keys are generated from a "random set of primes", or a "super" long, prime, random number.
If someone was to um.. "learn of" the code to make "random" numbers (because they are truly not random, but based upon some calculation that gives the appearance of "randomness" )
and reproduce the conditions of the original generation of the private key - they could generate private keys - and greately reduce the number of guesses in their attack on the encryption.
After all, if the sim card (whatever, the little id chip in the phones) is linked to the user of the phone through billing records, etc... I'm sure it has a unique serial number / date / time / place produced burned into it.
If one had the code for the random prime generator, they could considerably weaken this whole encryption scheme.
Of course, such a project would require the assistance of the Deutche Telecomm (and/or whoever made the SIM cards/cell phones).
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If I were running the echelon network, I would flag encrypted stuff for immediate decoding. Lord knows they have the cpu cycles to do it. Shit, the pentagon sits on top of a LAKE of liquid Nitrogen.
In fact, I bet they have all conversations deciphered and "filtered" within one minute of the call is hung up.
I'd also have competing geeks in charge of seperate decryption centers - probably their decryption times are a point of pride within the "company" - sorta like Geordi LaForge tweaking the warp engines.
Ok.. I'm not sure about the following part, but it sounds kind of logical.
Coincidentally, once someone "cracks" the encryption (it is private/public key based) encryption on one mobile phone, it any further encryption rendered "useless" from that phone, or just for data coming into/ out of that phone?
hmm.. private keys are generated from a "random set of primes", if someone was to um.. "learn of" the code to make "random" numbers (because they are truly not random, but based upon some calculation that gives the appearance of "randomness" [is that a word?]), they could create private keys - or greately reduce the number of guesses in their attack on the encryption.
after all, if the sim card (whatever, the little id chip in the phones) is linked to the user of the phone through billing records, etc... I'm sure it has a serial number / date / time produced. If one had the random prime generator, they could considerably weaken this whole encryption scheme.
Of course, it would require the assistance of the Deutche Telecomm (or whoever).
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Germany first Krypto Handy goes now into series production. Outwardly the encoding Handy resembles Siemens a S3ï, but the TopSec GSM device mentioned brings the measuring technique specialist Rohde and black on the market. Originally the development was advanced by the Siemens area information and Communication mobile, until Rohde and black at the beginning of of May took over the business segment hardware encoding of Siemens.
Because conventional portable radio connections did not guarantee a complete privacy, Siemens researchers already developed a procedure, which makes a secured connection with genuine end to the end encoding in the Handy on push of a button one year ago. The Clou: The TopSec GSM " simulates " a speech transmission; the Handy for encoded discussions actually opens a GSM usual data channel however instead of the voice channel. This permits it to transfer encoded contents unchanged and transparency between two compatible receiving stations.
For the setting up of a normal unencrypted connection one selects like used the call number of its interlocutor. If the telephone call is to be encoded however, then one presses an accordingly programmed soft key before the push button. The device switches then into the data mode; an additionally inserted, only stamp-large module codes and scrambles the exchanged data so thoroughly that even secret services cannot monitor, so the manufacturer. The safe connection can be however only structured, even if the interlocutor is attached a suitable Handy had or its ISDN telephone to a suitable encoding module.
The devices of the communication partners exchange a new 128-Bit-Schluessel with each connection establishment. Each mark is selected another of 10 38 codes the available by coincidence procedures. " thousand Pentium computers would have to count over ten years, around the wording of a zehnminuetigen Telefonates to decode ", schwaermt a technician of the new procedure.
Theoretically everyone may acquire the Handy, but the cost price of approximately 6000 Marks might limit the set of the buyers drastically. In some countries is besides the application of the encoding technique expressly forbidden. First user of the TopSec GSM is the German Minister of the Interior Otto Schily; he got a device from the pilot lot given ( Gerard Ducasse ) / ( dz / c't)
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Slashdot Mirror
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It's cool, but I wonder about "heat" issues. Warm air blowing through something tends to dry it out pretty well.
Nevertheless, a very cool mod.
Equally cool mod done to the virgin webplayer. Go forth and slashdot him. Someone please post a mirror.
He wants to solar power this too.
http://www.unternet.org/~frank/projects/webplay
Some specs:
- sheet metal case (used to be part of an army 2-stroke fuel pack)
- 6 mm polycarbonate ('lexan') 'screen'
- aluminium chassis, doubling as processor cooler
- 2 * IBM Travelstar 20GB drives
- internal 12V->5V converter based on Max724
- external interfaces: USB, power, audio, modem
- IR keyboard
- DOC as 'emergency backup OS', it contains a small GNU/Linux installation.
I might choose to leave out the DOC and the modem, and go for an external USB modem instead. Anyone know a good place in Vancouver to buy stuff like that? I only need the modem when I find myself in the vicinity of a telephone, so I can put some imagery on the website I'll make for the trip.
It will be hosting a webcam which will snap a picture every X seconds and record 'interesting' sound events (hence the two drives, the trip will take about 2.5 months so I need quite a lot of disk space). It runs a slightly modified Debian GNU/Linux 'testing' distribution (currently using the 2.4.4 kernel with some USB patches). Agressive use of APM keeps power consumption down (eg. screen blank after 2 minute, I won't need the screen anyway most of the time. The camera will be mounted on a headband, or just attached to the canoe somewhere, and merrily document the whole trip.
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FDA is a fuck off agency, who has better quality standards than the "watch dog organization for reviewers", and might be a little harder to bribe, but follows the rule, same shit, different pile.
Mass bribery?
Why can I buy claritin in canada over the counter (shit, they have it in attractive displays in the aisles) for $10 Canadian (6.50 US$ with tax) and the same damn package in the USA costs $70 AND needs a perscription ($40ish, even if your insurance pays).
Bribery is called "campaign contributions" or "donations to the US Treasury" in the USA. Again - same shit, different pile.
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That and the fact the Canada isn't getting that great of a deal. The USA has the most to benifit (from mexico). The canadian consumer has accepted an (inflated) price for CD's, when nafta takes effect, prices will not drop, but the recording industry's profits will rise.
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Incidentally, AOL (v?)did not work with beta versions of WIN ME, I wonder if this situation will be any different. It would be nice to see a MS vs AOL TW lawsuit. Hundreds of lawyers on both sides...
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Violence (Bloody revolutions) are pretty much the only things that changed the balance of power and brought it to the citizen. Take for example, the british civil war, where the king was beheaded; the french revolution; hell, even the overrunning of the roman empire by the "barbarians" made the barbarian's lives easier.
The race riots were one of the leading causes of change in the USA, especially in the areas of race equality and civil rights.
Sure, sit-ins (now illegal) and non-violent protests helped (because people "not from the south" saw Bull releasing attack dogs on peaceful protestors, and using firehoses at full pressure. Sure, peaceful protests are good and noble, but the only thing people seem to remember is violence - whether by the protestors, or by the police.
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Violence gets attention - what protestors want to get.
It is truly amazing how some people are ignorant of history.
Bloody revolutions are pretty much the only things that changed the balance of power and brought it to the citizen. Take for example, the british civil war, where the king was beheaded; the french revolution; hell, even the overrunning of the roman empire by the "barbarians" made the barbarian's lives easier.
The race riots were one of the leading causes of change in the USA, especially in the areas of race equality and civil rights.
Sure, sit-ins (now illegal) and non-violent protests helped (because people "not from the south" saw Bull releasing attack dogs on peaceful protestors, and using firehoses at full pressure. Sure, peaceful protests are good and noble, but the only thing people seem to remember is violence - whether by the protestors, or by the police.
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Hell, some places you need a frigging license / permit to protest. The point of protestors being on "somebodies lawn" is to get attention, if they leave when asked to, (don't bother me), their attempts are kind of moot.
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You couldn't of have been laid off, because you obviously have not gotten off the "feel good happy pills" that your company buys you.
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Also, something about being judge, jury, executioner comes to mind.
Cops are not supposed to excercise punishment for crimes, at least in the USA.
Of course, your hailed democracy is one where you can be taken to prison for a minor traffic violation.
Rock On...
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Ged a bedsheet and put it on you fucking hick.
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Also, the people affected are not voters yet (because they are under 18). Once they turn 18, they won't give a shit because they are not effected.
The USA has a little thing called "recall", if you gain enough support, you can remove someone from office before their term is up. Look it up.
Ironically, people bitch and whine, but I don't think recall has been used much historically.
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We should have mandatory breast feeding until the age of ten!
And potty training should not be implemented until the age, due to the emotional pain kids suffer when they get yelled at.
Seriously, I don't see why this is even an issue, kids don't exactly sneak out of the house to go to the arcade to play violent games, they are perfectly happy doing this at their friends house, or even at home.
This legislation was passed because the politicans did not get their "campaign contributions" from the gaming industry. Lets be realistic about this.
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But while we give them m-16's, m-203G's, MP5's,
God Bless America!
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Shit, the cops at least had body armor and weapons.
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Even if kids remember who sponsored this bill when they are able to vote, statistics show that young voters don't vote; Their hard-line republican parents and "protect our children" democrats will do the voting for them.
Right, Baaa.Baaa American Sheep. Though I am not suprised - the US did ban alcohol, and still has a 21 year drinking age.
It is nice to know that the two major political parties have something in common.
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freeboxen.com - awesome site - people will pay you to get rid of your old stuff. Free parts,
nm, scratch that, it seems to be down, kind of permanantly.
2.)
local hs/college computer club / whatever
- set up a beowulf of 486's or pentium 100's.
- hundreds of things to do - linux
- computers for the poor with win 95 (because you got the licenses for free) / linux (fsck licencing)
- keep the 8086, sell on ebay in a few years, or practice soldering/desoldering.
3.) (shameless begging)
For really cool, working stuff (200mhz up computers), I'll take it off your hands - really! I'll even pay for shipping! Well, the boards anyway. I'll take any working dimms for free too! Any HDD's greater than 1 gig are great too!
I WANT COPIES OF MS DOS 1,2,3,4,5 WIN 1.0 (exists?),2,3; NT 1,2,3,4
Ideas:
486 as a firewall / internet router and / or windows 3.1 demo machine, play gorrilas.bas with ms qubasic on dos 6.2
- learn about motherboard repair, get a logic testor, a mboard repair book.
286 - put Commander Keen 1 + 2 on it. Run demo in endless loop or untill you rip out the pc speaker cause the sound effects are bleedin' annoying.
8086 - put really, really old abandonware on it.
- calculate pi to x million digits,
Of course, you need a screen for this - so you keep 4-8 lbs of lead out of the landfill and get a nice space heater in one wonderful deal!
Hmm, old software.. some un named person in my college formats the hdd's of the new dell 700 mhz machines and places Dos 3.1 on them. Managed to install Desqview on a box as well (with dos 5). Funny as hell to see the software and the sysadmins pissed. Runs really fast too (except for desqvies, which sorta ran)
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Firstly, (basic question)
Once someone "cracks" the encryption (it is private/public key based) encryption on one mobile phone, it any further encryption rendered "broken" from that phone, or just for data coming into/ out of that phone?
Secondly, (kind of mind trippish)
From what I understand, private keys are generated from a "random set of primes", or a "super" long, prime, random number.
If someone was to um.. "learn of" the code to make "random" numbers (because they are truly not random, but based upon some calculation that gives the appearance of "randomness" )
and reproduce the conditions of the original generation of the private key - they could generate private keys - and greately reduce the number of guesses in their attack on the encryption.
After all, if the sim card (whatever, the little id chip in the phones) is linked to the user of the phone through billing records, etc... I'm sure it has a unique serial number / date / time / place produced burned into it.
If one had the code for the random prime generator, they could considerably weaken this whole encryption scheme.
Of course, such a project would require the assistance of the Deutche Telecomm (and/or whoever made the SIM cards/cell phones).
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In fact, I bet they have all conversations deciphered and "filtered" within one minute of the call is hung up.
I'd also have competing geeks in charge of seperate decryption centers - probably their decryption times are a point of pride within the "company" - sorta like Geordi LaForge tweaking the warp engines.
Ok.. I'm not sure about the following part, but it sounds kind of logical.
Coincidentally, once someone "cracks" the encryption (it is private/public key based) encryption on one mobile phone, it any further encryption rendered "useless" from that phone, or just for data coming into/ out of that phone?
hmm.. private keys are generated from a "random set of primes", if someone was to um.. "learn of" the code to make "random" numbers (because they are truly not random, but based upon some calculation that gives the appearance of "randomness" [is that a word?]), they could create private keys - or greately reduce the number of guesses in their attack on the encryption.
after all, if the sim card (whatever, the little id chip in the phones) is linked to the user of the phone through billing records, etc... I'm sure it has a serial number / date / time produced. If one had the random prime generator, they could considerably weaken this whole encryption scheme.
Of course, it would require the assistance of the Deutche Telecomm (or whoever).
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Though, as I recall, that went badly for him.
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Germany first Krypto Handy goes now into series production. Outwardly the encoding Handy resembles Siemens a S3ï, but the TopSec GSM device mentioned brings the measuring technique specialist Rohde and black on the market. Originally the development was advanced by the Siemens area information and Communication mobile, until Rohde and black at the beginning of of May took over the business segment hardware encoding of Siemens.
Because conventional portable radio connections did not guarantee a complete privacy, Siemens researchers already developed a procedure, which makes a secured connection with genuine end to the end encoding in the Handy on push of a button one year ago. The Clou: The TopSec GSM " simulates " a speech transmission; the Handy for encoded discussions actually opens a GSM usual data channel however instead of the voice channel. This permits it to transfer encoded contents unchanged and transparency between two compatible receiving stations.
For the setting up of a normal unencrypted connection one selects like used the call number of its interlocutor. If the telephone call is to be encoded however, then one presses an accordingly programmed soft key before the push button. The device switches then into the data mode; an additionally inserted, only stamp-large module codes and scrambles the exchanged data so thoroughly that even secret services cannot monitor, so the manufacturer. The safe connection can be however only structured, even if the interlocutor is attached a suitable Handy had or its ISDN telephone to a suitable encoding module.
The devices of the communication partners exchange a new 128-Bit-Schluessel with each connection establishment. Each mark is selected another of 10 38 codes the available by coincidence procedures. " thousand Pentium computers would have to count over ten years, around the wording of a zehnminuetigen Telefonates to decode ", schwaermt a technician of the new procedure.
Theoretically everyone may acquire the Handy, but the cost price of approximately 6000 Marks might limit the set of the buyers drastically. In some countries is besides the application of the encoding technique expressly forbidden. First user of the TopSec GSM is the German Minister of the Interior Otto Schily; he got a device from the pilot lot given ( Gerard Ducasse ) / ( dz / c't)
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