Ask Sarah Flannery, who was 16 when she wrote a paper showing her "Cayley-Purser" algorythm to be faster and as secure as RSA. This latter claim proved false, as Sarah herself found out through more research with Michael Purser and William Whyte.
The young man in the article seems to be just as lucky as he was brilliant. Ms. Flannery focused her interest and intellect with incredible results.
Math: it's not just for Cowboys.
"All the ladies who crack RSA keys
Throw your hands up at me..."
Having worked for years in IT at MIT and Harvard, I've had my share of run-ins with ORBS.
The ugly scene unfolds: A professor or grad student slaps her new linux box on the net, sendmail running, third-party relay enabled, and WHAM! Eighty angry faculty and staff come crashing into your office demanding to know why their government/private/overseas collaborators can no longer receive mail from them. ORBS rears its fugly head. And the underpaid, underappreciated, overworked IT person gets the blame.
Before you get your panties in a bunch over crappy.edu "security," you should know that edus are notoriously understaffed (both quality and quantity-wise) in IT. People putting new (insecure) boxes on the network is a constant occurrance, and very difficult to control.
At least when it comes to.edus, "services" like ORBS take IT ppl's time away from dealing with many more pressing security problems. It also often undermines users' confidence in their IT staff, and can thus compound the problem of.edus not allocating enough of their budgets for IT.
"...viruses are the bugs, bacterias are not, but I couldn't think of another joke)." Bacterium - singular
Bacteria - plural
Next disk crash please don't ask "Where did all my datas go?"
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Ask Sarah Flannery, who was 16 when she wrote a paper showing her "Cayley-Purser" algorythm to be faster and as secure as RSA. This latter claim proved false, as Sarah herself found out through more research with Michael Purser and William Whyte.
The young man in the article seems to be just as lucky as he was brilliant. Ms. Flannery focused her interest and intellect with incredible results.
Math: it's not just for Cowboys.
"All the ladies who crack RSA keys Throw your hands up at me..."
Having worked for years in IT at MIT and Harvard, I've had my share of run-ins with ORBS.
.edu "security," you should know that edus are notoriously understaffed (both quality and quantity-wise) in IT. People putting new (insecure) boxes on the network is a constant occurrance, and very difficult to control.
.edus, "services" like ORBS take IT ppl's time away from dealing with many more pressing security problems. It also often undermines users' confidence in their IT staff, and can thus compound the problem of .edus not allocating enough of their budgets for IT.
The ugly scene unfolds: A professor or grad student slaps her new linux box on the net, sendmail running, third-party relay enabled, and WHAM! Eighty angry faculty and staff come crashing into your office demanding to know why their government/private/overseas collaborators can no longer receive mail from them. ORBS rears its fugly head. And the underpaid, underappreciated, overworked IT person gets the blame.
Before you get your panties in a bunch over crappy
At least when it comes to
-my02.
"...viruses are the bugs, bacterias are not, but I couldn't think of another joke)."
Bacterium - singular Bacteria - plural
Next disk crash please don't ask "Where did all my datas go?"