Contrary to what the press (and the big media companies) want you to think, downloading music from the internet (or any other source) is NOT stealing. At most, it is copyright infringement. This is not the same thing.
And add to this that any Java application running on an UltraSPARC T1 processor with Solaris 10 or above, that does cryptography through the standard Java Crypto Extentions automatically benefits from the modular exponentiation acceleration from the T1, as the JCE uses the Solaris Crypto Framework, which, as stated by the previous poster, uses the NCP if it sees an UltraSPARC T1 processor on the system.
Using BitTorrent doesn't imply stealing. There are a great many very
legitimate uses of BitTorrent. For example, you can officially download
Sun Microsystems' OpenSolaris
through BitTorrent. Mandriva
Linux is distributed to its club members also via BitTorrent. There are
official distributions of movies like Star
Wreck done through BitTorrent.
Very legitimate games like Blizzard Entertainment's hugely successful
World of Warcraft use the BitTorrent protocol to distribute their
patches.
It's because people like you confuse tools and acts that the French
government feels it can follow the recommendations of artist
organisations and push for implementations of controls in P2P tools
such as BitTorrent, in the context of it's new DADVSI law projects.
I would like, here, to remind everybody who hasn't yet figured it out,
that a hammer, while it can be used to kill someone by hitting them on
the head hard enough, isn't considered a criminal's tool... and as such
doesn't implement all kinds of ridiculous controls. Some of the users
may be criminals... but there are very legitimate uses for a hammer...
just as there are for BitTorrent clients.
Teamspeak is still free for personal use. Server and client binaries are available for free, for Windows and Linux (and there is even a Mac OS beta on their site). You can set up a free Teamspeak server on any Windows or Linux server as long as you only have (I think) something like max 16 simultaneous connections... Which, for the "family" use you describe, is the case.
At the time when the TI-57 had red LEDs (afterwards, they came up with LCDs)... I had asked TI for the schematics (I still have the 1 page document if anyone wants a scanned copy)... and I had modified the R-C bridge that was used as a time base for the clock and put a variable resistor... machine would go 16 times faster without making mistakes... beyond that, it was rather fun to watch. The calculator still works... but looks a bit tweaked (too many plugs into it, including a speaker, a reset button, an external keyboard and a connecter to trigger an external relay).
You say that these keys are subconscious for you... But these keyboards are designed to make the experience for the "average" user a comfortable one. Even better, imagine Linux in the enterprise. People want dedicated keys. They are trained for them. Products need to implement them.
You'd be amazed at the number of people who actually systematically use the Copy, Paste, Cut, Front and other keys on Sun Keyboards.
Believe me... dedicated function keys are used... a lot... by "average" users.
One Time Pad is a method of cryptography where you (roughly) XOR a block of data with a same size block of (ideally) random bits. This block should only be used once... hence the term One Time Pad.
On the other hand, One Time Password refers to the fact that the password is used once... and next time another, different, password will be used.
UBS (my bank) uses a calculator with a smart-card hosted certificate for one time password authentication.
They filter port 80... big deal... use port 81... or 88... or 8000 or 8080... or anything. Be creative!
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Dear Hemanshu Nigam (MPAA23@pacbell.net),
In an e-mail you sent to the author of several web pages providing excellent educational and scholar material on how to study the
encryption schemes utilized in futilely trying to protect content on a DVD-Video support, you valiantly brandish something called:
Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Title 17 United States Code Section 1201(a)(2)(3)
This is all fine and nice, but I was wondering how it would apply, should I, French citizen, but resident in Switzerland, desire to publish my
findings on CSS...
- Should I elect to publish in on a web site in Switzerland?
- Should I elect to publish it on a web site in Russia?
- Should I elect to publish it on a web site in China?
As far as I know, DMCA does not apply in these countries (as well as most other American laws). In countries like Switzerland, where
individual privacy is even more enforced than in the USA, should someone decide to publish such material in an anonymous manner, it
could prove impossible to track the person and try to bully her into ceasing that expression of her free speech. In countries such as China
or Russia, it might simply prove impossible to discuss this with any form of authority.
Of couse, here I am not even mentionning countries that have a national interest in acting against the USA... countries like Cuba (for some
reason some of you Americans even consider that state a terrorist state!) or Irak, Libya...
I, as a security specialist, recognize the commonly accepted truth that "security by obscurity is no security" and in light of this, think that
publishing scholar work on the CCS can only help the industry not repeat it's mistakes. Thinking that one can be better than the
world-wide community of cryptographers in inventing a private cryptosystem to protect digital content was at best a childish attitude... at
worse could be considered voluntarily embedding a backdoor in the DVD-CCS. Has anyone ever decided to sue the inventor of CCS as
having deliberately inserted a security hole in that mechanism? (the ridiculously feeble protection is definitely a hole).
I think that in a free world of communication, you are advocating a doomed fight.
Hi! Actually, Swissairalready offers "plug-into-the-seat" power supplies on all their long-haul fligts (in business and first class). All you need is the standard converter/adaptor (which you can buy on-board or in most travel shops)...
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Contrary to what the press (and the big media companies) want you to think, downloading music from the internet (or any other source) is NOT stealing. At most, it is copyright infringement. This is not the same thing.
Nano knives... you never know when you will need to break out of a nano jail cell...
And add to this that any Java application running on an UltraSPARC T1 processor with Solaris 10 or above, that does cryptography through the standard Java Crypto Extentions automatically benefits from the modular exponentiation acceleration from the T1, as the JCE uses the Solaris Crypto Framework, which, as stated by the previous poster, uses the NCP if it sees an UltraSPARC T1 processor on the system.
No... It's the "UltraSPARC T1 processor". Niagara was just the internal code name before the processor was commercially available.
Gilles.
So why does Skype, on my AMD 64 x2 machine, tell me that I can add 9 people to a current conference call?
Using BitTorrent doesn't imply stealing. There are a great many very legitimate uses of BitTorrent. For example, you can officially download Sun Microsystems' OpenSolaris through BitTorrent. Mandriva Linux is distributed to its club members also via BitTorrent. There are official distributions of movies like Star Wreck done through BitTorrent. Very legitimate games like Blizzard Entertainment's hugely successful World of Warcraft use the BitTorrent protocol to distribute their patches.
It's because people like you confuse tools and acts that the French government feels it can follow the recommendations of artist organisations and push for implementations of controls in P2P tools such as BitTorrent, in the context of it's new DADVSI law projects.
I would like, here, to remind everybody who hasn't yet figured it out, that a hammer, while it can be used to kill someone by hitting them on the head hard enough, isn't considered a criminal's tool... and as such doesn't implement all kinds of ridiculous controls. Some of the users may be criminals... but there are very legitimate uses for a hammer... just as there are for BitTorrent clients.
Teamspeak is still free for personal use. Server and client binaries are available for free, for Windows and Linux (and there is even a Mac OS beta on their site). You can set up a free Teamspeak server on any Windows or Linux server as long as you only have (I think) something like max 16 simultaneous connections... Which, for the "family" use you describe, is the case.
Gilles.
At the time when the TI-57 had red LEDs (afterwards, they came up with LCDs)... I had asked TI for the schematics (I still have the 1 page document if anyone wants a scanned copy)... and I had modified the R-C bridge that was used as a time base for the clock and put a variable resistor... machine would go 16 times faster without making mistakes... beyond that, it was rather fun to watch. The calculator still works... but looks a bit tweaked (too many plugs into it, including a speaker, a reset button, an external keyboard and a connecter to trigger an external relay).
Gilles.
You say that these keys are subconscious for you... But these keyboards are designed to make the experience for the "average" user a comfortable one. Even better, imagine Linux in the enterprise. People want dedicated keys. They are trained for them. Products need to implement them.
:)
You'd be amazed at the number of people who actually systematically use the Copy, Paste, Cut, Front and other keys on Sun Keyboards.
Believe me... dedicated function keys are used... a lot... by "average" users.
I'm just an "s/average/geek/g" user.
GIlles.
The leap backwards actually comes from using Windows, to start with. Go for Linux on the desktop... and NetBSD on the server and you're all set. :)
Isn't all this what idQuantique ( http://www.idquantique.com/ ) has been working on and has products for, for a couple of years now?
One Time Pad is a method of cryptography where you (roughly) XOR a block of data with a same size block of (ideally) random bits. This block should only be used once... hence the term One Time Pad.
On the other hand, One Time Password refers to the fact that the password is used once... and next time another, different, password will be used.
UBS (my bank) uses a calculator with a smart-card hosted certificate for one time password authentication.
I used to do this with my Quantum3D Obsidian graphics boards years ago (at the time when 3Dfx meant something to gamers). :)
Swedish company AppGate develops a commercial software that enables SSH-tuneled access to intranets for Ericsson P800 cell phones.
These guys could do almost all of what is described... Apollo... pity HP killed them.
They filter port 80... big deal... use port 81... or 88... or 8000 or 8080... or anything. Be creative !
UPDATE: I have had no reply to my e-mail to MPAA...
Dear Hemanshu Nigam (MPAA23@pacbell.net),
In an e-mail you sent to the author of several web pages providing excellent educational and scholar material on how to study the
encryption schemes utilized in futilely trying to protect content on a DVD-Video support, you valiantly brandish something called:
Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Title 17 United States Code Section 1201(a)(2)(3)
This is all fine and nice, but I was wondering how it would apply, should I, French citizen, but resident in Switzerland, desire to publish my
findings on CSS...
- Should I elect to publish in on a web site in Switzerland?
- Should I elect to publish it on a web site in Russia?
- Should I elect to publish it on a web site in China?
As far as I know, DMCA does not apply in these countries (as well as most other American laws). In countries like Switzerland, where
individual privacy is even more enforced than in the USA, should someone decide to publish such material in an anonymous manner, it
could prove impossible to track the person and try to bully her into ceasing that expression of her free speech. In countries such as China
or Russia, it might simply prove impossible to discuss this with any form of authority.
Of couse, here I am not even mentionning countries that have a national interest in acting against the USA... countries like Cuba (for some
reason some of you Americans even consider that state a terrorist state!) or Irak, Libya...
I, as a security specialist, recognize the commonly accepted truth that "security by obscurity is no security" and in light of this, think that
publishing scholar work on the CCS can only help the industry not repeat it's mistakes. Thinking that one can be better than the
world-wide community of cryptographers in inventing a private cryptosystem to protect digital content was at best a childish attitude... at
worse could be considered voluntarily embedding a backdoor in the DVD-CCS. Has anyone ever decided to sue the inventor of CCS as
having deliberately inserted a security hole in that mechanism? (the ridiculously feeble protection is definitely a hole).
I think that in a free world of communication, you are advocating a doomed fight.
Would you care to attempt proving me wrong?
Regards,
Gilles.
Hi! Actually, Swissair already offers "plug-into-the-seat" power supplies on all their long-haul fligts (in business and first class). All you need is the standard converter/adaptor (which you can buy on-board or in most travel shops)...