Whitfield Diffie, who holds the position of Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems Laboratories is best known for his 1975 discovery of the concept of public key cryptography, for which he was awarded a Doctorate in Technical Sciences (Honoris Causa) by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in 1992.
For a dozen years prior to assuming his present position in 1991, Diffie was Manager of Secure Systems Research for Northern Telecom, functioning as the center of expertise in advanced security technologies throughout the corporation. Among his achievements in this position was the design of the key management architecture for NT's PDSO security system for X.25 packet networks.
Diffie received a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1965. Prior to becoming interested in cryptography, he worked on the development of the Mathlab symbolic manipulation system --- sponsored jointly at Mitre and the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory --- and later on proof of correctness of computer programs at Stanford University.
Since 1993, Diffie has worked largely in public policy, in the area of cryptography. He has testified twice to the House and twice to the Senate. His position --- in opposition to limitations on the business and personal use of cryptography --- has been the subject of articles in the New York Times Magazine, Wired, Omini, and Discover. The subject has also been covered on the Discovery Channel, Equinox TV in Britain, and the Japanese TV network NHK.
Notariety has provoked a number of awards, including: IEEE Information Theory Society Best Paper Award for 1979, IEEE Donald E. Fink award for 1981, the 1994 Pioneer Award, given by The Electronic Frontiers Foundation for contribution to the quality of life in cyberspace, the 1996 National Computer Systems Security Award given jointly by NIST and NSA, the 1997 Louis E. Levy Medal from the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, the First ACM Paris Kanellakis Award for contribution to theory and practice in computer science, the IEEE Information Society Golden Jubilee Award for invention of the Diffie-Hellman key exchange protocol.
Does AJ show pics and video of Iraqi troops hiding among civilians and using them as shields? Does AJ show report on the Iraqi troops using a hospital for a weapons cache?
How do you know these things? You say that CNN may not report things 'fairly' but at the same time you take CNN's sayings at face value. Oh wait, the U.S. military spokesman said it, then it must be true!;-)
60 Megabytes per second? Err, I don't think your hard disk is capable of I/O of that magnitude. On the other hand , I have serious doubts whether a TCP flow can achieve transfer speeds like that. Even if your connection is 10Gigabit Ethernet, you still wouldn't be able to utilize but a small fraction of it.
Basicaly, what they are trying to do is embed tens of processor cores inside one chip. If they can pull this off sufficiently early, they may completely overwhelm their SMP competition as both IBM and Intel are at the point of embeding only a couple of cores in one die. Plus, their software has excellent SMP characteristics which may prove quite usefull.
Ok, after the "bsd is dead" partyline slashdot announces the "sun is dead" partyline. The whole purpose of this fire blade platform is that sun wants to bypass the "more MHZ every week" stupidity. Do you want a linux server? take an x86 blade.you want ssl? take an ssl processor blade. And mind you, this is not 10 pc's all plugged into the same bus, there is virtualization here, meaning you have a centralized point of management from which you can assign jobs and control everything. This kind of management is unlike the "login to X and do Y" paradigm , is more like having Vmware with hardware acceleration provided by the blades. With the N1 architecture it is my opinion that everything becomes a managed resource so you can do with it anything you want. So they make it a question of scalability which (IMHO) is what sun is best able to do better than (almost) anyone.
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Well I guess even for Hitler, it was first business, then pleasure:-)
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not bothered with Yugoslavia
Please do a s/Yugoslavia/Greece/
Hitler's initial plan was to punch a hole in the southern part of the Soviet Union, overrun Caucasus and make it to India where the British defenses were scarce because most of them were transfered West to Egypt. But to do that, he would have to conquer the Balcans first, otherwise he would be vulnerable to a British attack from Greek soil. A brilliant plan, if you ask me, because it would split the British empire, and enable Hitler to gain access to the Indian Ocean and join with the Jananese forces that would bypass Indo-China and attack India. However Mussolini's stupidity blew it all:) Not only he decided to attack Greece two years ahead of Hitler's plans, but he also failed to make any progress. The Greek troops in fact attacked him and pushed his army behind the Albanian front. To prevent the situation from getting out of hand, Hitler attacked but it took him more than expected to conquer Greece, especialy Crete which in fact took him more time to beat even than France. The casualties of the German paratroopers were so high that they were never again able to participate in another operation throughout the rest of the war. The contribution of the Yogoslav partisans is of course not to be underestimated at all, but IMHO the key point was Crete. See Battle of Crete
1.Write a trully original book, say like RWR. 2.Write a couple of *cpappy* sequels that everyone wants to read just to find out what happens at the end. 3.??? 4.profit!!!
(???=make a movie)
I stopped rama after the third book. Ever since, I keep having nightmares where a fleet of blood-thirsty klingons decloack out of nowhere and blow the blody ship to pieces...just for the fun of it..
I happen to live in greece, so let me tell you this: Nobody here gives an *fsck* about this DMCA-like law they 've passed. And more important, especialy those who have passed this foolish law are *completely* clueless about the threats that it represents. So, dear./er,I hear you ask "why the hell did they pass the darn law in the first place?" Because they are so freakin' willing to do immediately whatever the EU directives say, that there is no time to consider the meaning of such a legislation. After all, if the european counsil said it, it must be right! But if you believe that a law like it can pose any kind of serious threat to the everyday activities of us Greeks I can tell you that there are literally *thousands* of colored immigrants from various african countries which make a living by selling copied cd's from all the major foreign and domestic artists, and I mean here professional works, cd covers etc. When you go anywhere for a cup of coffee or a beer (legal for any age!!!:) on average there will be at least a couple of those folks running around and asking you politely whether you want to buy a cd. Price is around 3-4 euros (3-4 $). So why go to the bloody cd-store when you can pick all the titles you like while enjoying you coffee ??:) Everybody's happy (hehe even the cops) so why bother arresting them ? After all,a little slack for everyone can be extremely productive:)
And like Sun, IBM is mainly in the hardware business
WHAT? So java, solaris (sparc & intel), tivoli, db2, sun ONE are just a... sideline ???
Give me a break, both Sun and IBM are both hardware AND software manufacturers. I personally consider their software divisions equally important with their hardware counterparts.
Over the www there is an unpresedented wealth of knowledge that can be used to educate the next generation far more eficiently than our current methods (or it can be used to augment the current methods of course) But a new way of searching through this ocean of data will be required. I have come to believe that the www as it is has a serious problem of scaling that will (or has already) present itself in the near future. The google is of course a very usefull tool that has grown so much because of the need people have to search fast and reliably throughout the net. But it is not panacea. There are limitations in what it can do and of course it is centralized (whatever advantage or disadvantage this means).Perhaps a new breed of overlay-network that would use a semantic approach to indexing and searching instead of the crude substring match methods we use today, would do the jobs. Now how about that? an e-mule client that uses ontology to clasify its contents! Yes! so the RIAA could not fill it up with random garbage as they intend to do.
There was a watch in foundation but it was not a detector. In "foundation and empire" when the Mule attacks planet Terminus, everybodys watch stop functioning due to the EM pulse. I guess that all our wristwatches could be considered EM detectors in that regard:)Sad thing is that they could be used only once:(
this may be offtopic, but the russian problems may just be an excuse for the US to temporarily mothball the space station so that more money can be diverted to the imminent war against Iraq. I mean, comeon, do you trully believe that the american government has any real interest in space exporation??? Don't get me wrong here, I think the americans are the only nation that can realy make a difference here, + they have achieved a great many in the past with the apollo program and the space shuttles, but I do not think that the US gov. is really serious about the ISS or the mars exploration or the return to the moon. And this is because none of the officials has any real vision. The war against terror is just a stupid trick to divert everyone's minds from the really important things. I think the americans are currently the only nation that can make a difference, and with the help of the European Union and Japan, great achievements that can capture the hearts and minds of all people can be accomplished. Next time you think about your petty problems here on earth, I suggest you look up towards the stars.
So the CPU does the encoding, right? I would be much happier if an mpeg card could be used to encode so the CPU remains essentialy idle. Is this approach used with the other linux PVR's, or does everyone rely on the CPU for the encoding?
"The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch" by Philip K. Dick. In a world where happiness is an impossible dream, people use drugs to enter fake worlds and live the life they've always wanted. Just replace the drugs with a high-technology infrastracture and see where are we getting at.
There is a language where all these ambiguities are eliminated: Ancient Greek. I have studied it during highschool and I can tell you that the ways in which you are able to express yourself are clearly far superior that anything that is spoken in the western world today. But there is a problem. Unfortunately almost nobody (even among greeks) knows ancient greek nowadays. But perhaps it would be an interesting example for these guys at nintendo.
...the casio pocket viewer PV-S450 is a very good choice. Granted, there exist not so many apps as for the palms or the pocket pc's but with two AAA batteries this puppy can last (literaly) for months! How does it do it? Instead of using conventional memory, it has 4 MB of flash which does not need power to keep its contents when you're not using it. And even if you run out of batteries no need to reinstall anything...If you are using your PDA just to store phones and read e-books from the net, this is good (and VERY cheap) choice.
MS isn't trying to sell hardware? What about the x-box? I think that microsoft is trying to enter the hardware market as a serious competitor. What they don't know is that controlling the hardware market isn't as easy as controlling the software market.e.g. their usual tricks won't apply here.Apple tried to block 3rd party manufacturers and where did that get them. If you have a doubt ask IBM (or sun). IBM wasn't able to control the pc which she had invented in the first place. These companies have learned their lesson and are now moving to the software side of the force. MS is going to have a hard time in the hardware market...
Ok, consider a company that makes some kind of periferal device for the ms xbox, say a webcam or something. It is obviously not illegal to make such a device. Of course you 'll say a mod chip does something illegal, but a webcam doesn't. But it is not allways clear whether a device is legal or illegal. How about something like the action replay from the amiga days? would an action replay for the xbox be illegal? What if someone makes an xbox compatible machine? Will they be able to stop it? You can see where I am getting at. Does microsoft have the authority (or the power if you prefer) to control all the hardware that third party manufacturers produce? Can they dictate what kinds of plugins are allowed? IMHO they can't and will never be able to. That's what apple tried to do once and they lost the game to the pc. That's what IBM didn't try do and today there are pc's everywhere. But IBM wasn't able to benefit from that fact. Face it, the hardware can't be controlled that easily. Today IBM and Sun are trying to move from the hardware market to the software market. Do you think they are stupid? They made the mistake once, they know they can't rely solely on hardware sales. On the contrary where does MS go? Now they try to make their own hardware platform as if software weren't enough to keep them going. I say good luck to them, but it won't be that easy this time.
now correct me if I'm wrong but most of the remote exploits and vulnerabilities that we see in un*x boxes nowdays are based on buffer overflows more or less. This practically means that somewhere inside the program there is a difference between the sizes of certain memeory areas that have been pre-allocated, or that the programmer made certain assumptions during writing that can be exploited to make the program behave in a way that the latter has never intended. Now if someone used a language like say, Ada, that restricts many of these *unsafe* assumptions, wouldn't that make the programs a lot less vulnerable. I have tried ada in the past and I can tell you that all these unsafe tricks that everyone does to get out of "tricky" situations simply aren't allowed. This would probably have serious implications in speed and probably in developement time but the whole essence of the open source movement is that you make it just for fun mainly. No timetables or silly demands from the boss right? This is not an Ada troll:-) mod this down if you must, I am just curius about what the other/.ers think about moving to "safer" languages.
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Whitfield Diffie, who holds the position of Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems Laboratories is best known for his 1975 discovery of the concept of public key cryptography, for which he was awarded a Doctorate in Technical Sciences (Honoris Causa) by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in 1992.
For a dozen years prior to assuming his present position in 1991, Diffie was Manager of Secure Systems Research for Northern Telecom, functioning as the center of expertise in advanced security technologies throughout the corporation. Among his achievements in this position was the design of the key management architecture for NT's PDSO security system for X.25 packet networks.
Diffie received a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1965. Prior to becoming interested in cryptography, he worked on the development of the Mathlab symbolic manipulation system --- sponsored jointly at Mitre and the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory --- and later on proof of correctness of computer programs at Stanford University.
Since 1993, Diffie has worked largely in public policy, in the area of cryptography. He has testified twice to the House and twice to the Senate. His position --- in opposition to limitations on the business and personal use of cryptography --- has been the subject of articles in the New York Times Magazine, Wired, Omini, and Discover. The subject has also been covered on the Discovery Channel, Equinox TV in Britain, and the Japanese TV network NHK.
Notariety has provoked a number of awards, including: IEEE Information Theory Society Best Paper Award for 1979, IEEE Donald E. Fink award for 1981, the 1994 Pioneer Award, given by The Electronic Frontiers Foundation for contribution to the quality of life in cyberspace, the 1996 National Computer Systems Security Award given jointly by NIST and NSA, the 1997 Louis E. Levy Medal from the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, the First ACM Paris Kanellakis Award for contribution to theory and practice in computer science, the IEEE Information Society Golden Jubilee Award for invention of the Diffie-Hellman key exchange protocol.
Dunno about Theo, but the European Space Agency has made a sparc compatible integer unit called LEON-1. They say they will use it on future space missions.
quite true.they are calling it throughtput computing Quite interesting IMHO, if they are able to produce it soon enough.
Going in and bombing them and forcing them to live how I live just because I think I'm right?I don't think I could do that.
:-)
unless they happen to live above large oil deposits that is
Does AJ show pics and video of Iraqi troops hiding among civilians and using them as shields?
;-)
Does AJ show report on the Iraqi troops using a hospital for a weapons cache?
How do you know these things?
You say that CNN may not report things 'fairly' but at the same time you take CNN's sayings at face value.
Oh wait, the U.S. military spokesman said it, then it must be true!
But you gotta admit that it would be real nice to have a transport protocol that could download an entire CD whithin 10 seconds...:-)
60 Megabytes per second? Err, I don't think your hard disk is capable of I/O of that magnitude. On the other hand , I have serious doubts whether a TCP flow can achieve transfer speeds like that. Even if your connection is 10Gigabit Ethernet, you still wouldn't be able to utilize but a small fraction of it.
get their Sparc archetecture up to speed
You may find this article interesting:
Sun has two surprises in store for users
Basicaly, what they are trying to do is embed tens of processor cores inside one chip. If they can pull this off sufficiently early, they may completely overwhelm their SMP competition as both IBM and Intel are at the point of embeding only a couple of cores in one die. Plus, their software has excellent SMP characteristics which may prove quite usefull.
Ok, after the "bsd is dead" partyline slashdot announces the "sun is dead" partyline. The whole purpose of this fire blade platform is that sun wants to bypass the "more MHZ every week" stupidity. Do you want a linux server? take an x86 blade.you want ssl? take an ssl processor blade. And mind you, this is not 10 pc's all plugged into the same bus, there is virtualization here, meaning you have a centralized point of management from which you can assign jobs and control everything. This kind of management is unlike the "login to X and do Y" paradigm , is more like having Vmware with hardware acceleration provided by the blades. With the N1 architecture it is my opinion that everything becomes a managed resource so you can do with it anything you want. So they make it a question of scalability which (IMHO) is what sun is best able to do better than (almost) anyone.
Well I guess even for Hitler, it was first business, then pleasure :-)
not bothered with Yugoslavia
:) Not only he decided to attack Greece two years ahead of Hitler's plans, but he also failed to make any progress. The Greek troops in fact attacked him and pushed his army behind the Albanian front. To prevent the situation from getting out of hand, Hitler attacked but it took him more than expected to conquer Greece, especialy Crete which in fact took him more time to beat even than France. The casualties of the German paratroopers were so high that they were never again able to participate in another operation throughout the rest of the war. The contribution of the Yogoslav partisans is of course not to be underestimated at all, but IMHO the key point was Crete. See Battle of Crete
Please do a s/Yugoslavia/Greece/
Hitler's initial plan was to punch a hole in the southern part of the Soviet Union, overrun Caucasus and make it to India where the British defenses were scarce because most of them were transfered West to Egypt. But to do that, he would have to conquer the Balcans first, otherwise he would be vulnerable to a British attack from Greek soil. A brilliant plan, if you ask me, because it would split the British empire, and enable Hitler to gain access to the Indian Ocean and join with the Jananese forces that would bypass Indo-China and attack India. However Mussolini's stupidity blew it all
1.Write a trully original book, say like RWR.
2.Write a couple of *cpappy* sequels that everyone wants to read just to find out what happens at the end.
3.???
4.profit!!!
(???=make a movie)
I stopped rama after the third book. Ever since, I keep having nightmares where a fleet of blood-thirsty klingons decloack out of nowhere and blow the blody ship to pieces...just for the fun of it..
only Greece has passed it.
./er,I hear you ask "why the hell did they pass the darn law in the first place?" Because they are so freakin' willing to do immediately whatever the EU directives say, that there is no time to consider the meaning of such a legislation. After all, if the european counsil said it, it must be right!
I happen to live in greece, so let me tell you this: Nobody here gives an *fsck* about this DMCA-like law they 've passed. And more important, especialy those who have passed this foolish law are *completely* clueless about the threats that it represents. So, dear
But if you believe that a law like it can pose any kind of serious threat to the everyday activities of us Greeks I can tell you that there are literally *thousands* of colored immigrants from various african countries which make a living by selling copied cd's from all the major foreign and domestic artists, and I mean here professional works, cd covers etc. When you go anywhere for a cup of coffee or a beer (legal for any age!!!:) on average there will be at least a couple of those folks running around and asking you politely whether you want to buy a cd. Price is around 3-4 euros (3-4 $). So why go to the bloody cd-store when you can pick all the titles you like while enjoying you coffee ??:) Everybody's happy (hehe even the cops) so why bother arresting them ? After all,a little slack for everyone can be extremely productive:)
and now, a little carma whoring: Greece, Denmark (and no-one else) make EC copyright deadline
And like Sun, IBM is mainly in the hardware business
... sideline ???
WHAT? So java, solaris (sparc & intel), tivoli, db2, sun ONE are just a
Give me a break, both Sun and IBM are both hardware AND software manufacturers. I personally consider their software divisions equally important with their hardware counterparts.
Over the www there is an unpresedented wealth of knowledge that can be used to educate the next generation far more eficiently than our current methods (or it can be used to augment the current methods of course) But a new way of searching through this ocean of data will be required. I have come to believe that the www as it is has a serious problem of scaling that will (or has already) present itself in the near future. The google is of course a very usefull tool that has grown so much because of the need people have to search fast and reliably throughout the net. But it is not panacea. There are limitations in what it can do and of course it is centralized (whatever advantage or disadvantage this means).Perhaps a new breed of overlay-network that would use a semantic approach to indexing and searching instead of the crude substring match methods we use today, would do the jobs. Now how about that? an e-mule client that uses ontology to clasify its contents! Yes! so the RIAA could not fill it up with random garbage as they intend to do.
There was a watch in foundation but it was not a detector. In "foundation and empire" when the Mule attacks planet Terminus, everybodys watch stop functioning due to the EM pulse. I guess that all our wristwatches could be considered EM detectors in that regard:)Sad thing is that they could be used only once :(
this may be offtopic, but the russian problems may just be an excuse for the US to temporarily mothball the space station so that more money can be diverted to the imminent war against Iraq. I mean, comeon, do you trully believe that the american government has any real interest in space exporation??? Don't get me wrong here, I think the americans are the only nation that can realy make a difference here, + they have achieved a great many in the past with the apollo program and the space shuttles, but I do not think that the US gov. is really serious about the ISS or the mars exploration or the return to the moon. And this is because none of the officials has any real vision. The war against terror is just a stupid trick to divert everyone's minds from the really important things. I think the americans are currently the only nation that can make a difference, and with the help of the European Union and Japan, great achievements that can capture the hearts and minds of all people can be accomplished. Next time you think about your petty problems here on earth, I suggest you look up towards the stars.
So the CPU does the encoding, right? I would be much happier if an mpeg card could be used to encode so the CPU remains essentialy idle. Is this approach used with the other linux PVR's, or does everyone rely on the CPU for the encoding?
"The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch" by Philip K. Dick. In a world where happiness is an impossible dream, people use drugs to enter fake worlds and live the life they've always wanted. Just replace the drugs with a high-technology infrastracture and see where are we getting at.
There is a language where all these ambiguities are eliminated: Ancient Greek. I have studied it during highschool and I can tell you that the ways in which you are able to express yourself are clearly far superior that anything that is spoken in the western world today. But there is a problem. Unfortunately almost nobody (even among greeks) knows ancient greek nowadays. But perhaps it would be an interesting example for these guys at nintendo.
...the casio pocket viewer PV-S450 is a very good choice. Granted, there exist not so many apps as for the palms or the pocket pc's but with two AAA batteries this puppy can last (literaly) for months! How does it do it? Instead of using conventional memory, it has 4 MB of flash which does not need power to keep its contents when you're not using it. And even if you run out of batteries no need to reinstall anything...If you are using your PDA just to store phones and read e-books from the net, this is good (and VERY cheap) choice.
casio's site
MS isn't trying to sell hardware? What about the x-box? I think that microsoft is trying to enter the hardware market as a serious competitor. What they don't know is that controlling the hardware market isn't as easy as controlling the software market.e.g. their usual tricks won't apply here.Apple tried to block 3rd party manufacturers and where did that get them. If you have a doubt ask IBM (or sun). IBM wasn't able to control the pc which she had invented in the first place. These companies have learned their lesson and are now moving to the software side of the force. MS is going to have a hard time in the hardware market...
Ok, consider a company that makes some kind of periferal device for the ms xbox, say a webcam or something. It is obviously not illegal to make such a device. Of course you 'll say a mod chip does something illegal, but a webcam doesn't. But it is not allways clear whether a device is legal or illegal. How about something like the action replay from the amiga days? would an action replay for the xbox be illegal? What if someone makes an xbox compatible machine? Will they be able to stop it? You can see where I am getting at. Does microsoft have the authority (or the power if you prefer) to control all the hardware that third party manufacturers produce? Can they dictate what kinds of plugins are allowed? IMHO they can't and will never be able to. That's what apple tried to do once and they lost the game to the pc. That's what IBM didn't try do and today there are pc's everywhere. But IBM wasn't able to benefit from that fact. Face it, the hardware can't be controlled that easily. Today IBM and Sun are trying to move from the hardware market to the software market. Do you think they are stupid? They made the mistake once, they know they can't rely solely on hardware sales. On the contrary where does MS go? Now they try to make their own hardware platform as if software weren't enough to keep them going. I say good luck to them, but it won't be that easy this time.
now correct me if I'm wrong but most of the remote exploits and vulnerabilities that we see in un*x boxes nowdays are based on buffer overflows more or less. This practically means that somewhere inside the program there is a difference between the sizes of certain memeory areas that have been pre-allocated, or that the programmer made certain assumptions during writing that can be exploited to make the program behave in a way that the latter has never intended. Now if someone used a language like say, Ada, that restricts many of these *unsafe* assumptions, wouldn't that make the programs a lot less vulnerable. I have tried ada in the past and I can tell you that all these unsafe tricks that everyone does to get out of "tricky" situations simply aren't allowed. This would probably have serious implications in speed and probably in developement time but the whole essence of the open source movement is that you make it just for fun mainly. No timetables or silly demands from the boss right? :-) mod this down if you must, I am just curius about what the other /.ers think about moving to "safer" languages.
This is not an Ada troll
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