It's a cool idea, but it seems like, unless the natural spin due to the coriolis effect is cancelled out some how, these things would create tornadoes : ( Does anyone have more info ?
Don't do what the poor buncha' college kids did in my town a while back. The motel where they booked the room wouldn't let them plug into their AC outlets for some reason. They had a generator, but hadn't planned the load well or gotten it setup before people arrived. I finally asked for my $ back and split after the third time the power to my lan box was cut : (
You're not being very optimistic : ( I'm amused that you've included seti@home as an alternative... Many of the arguments that you posit against trying to crack the signing keys have been arguments against SETI too. It seems that you're making a value judgement here and that's fine with me, but I think I'll be doing both for a while. Thanks for the encouragement : )
OK, you're right that it would take an inordinate amount of time to search the "entire" key space, but statistically speaking it's still possible to get "lucky" and find the key before you've exausted the key space. I know it's optimistic, but stranger things have happend IRL. I beleive the EFF's DES cracker found the correct key after seaching through about half of the DES keyspace... Sure 2048-bit RSA is a *MUCH* harder problem, but it doesn't mean we shouldn't try : )
Am I jumping the gun here or does this opens up the beautifully ironic possiblity of using untold numbers of un-modded X-Boxen to find the Private Key that is used to sign X-box code ? I don't know about you but I'm off to get the hardware and the game to give this a try...
The poster didn't ask it about 256 bit AES keys. He asked about modern PGP. Since the default behavious of most PGP implemtations is to use a symetric session key that is quite a bit less that 256-bit AES, the detailed answer you gave is irrelevant : ( If you're sloppy with your keys or repetitive in your plain texts, social engineering or differential analysis will be much more effective than brute force. If you're careful it'll be difficult for anyone to get your info. If you're not, well it'll be trivial : (
*Groan* Yeah, I see it now : ) I'm not sure how I missed that before... It's not really a great place to put it. It'll radiate and convect heat to the drives *AND* the parts on the mobo : (
The animation doesn't show the PS anywhere. I'd guess it's in the bottom, under the drives... That would seem to be less than ideal for cooling : (
It *IS* funky looking though and it lets you get to your KVM connections easily, perhaps too easily. It should have a hatch that covers the slots, but has cut-outs to route cables through.
Yes, yes, yes ! $200-$300 dollars seems a bit high, but I'd gladly sell my X-Box, my PS2, and my DC to get my hands on something that was both hackable and hacker friendly : ) Where's the waiting list ? Where do I sign up ? If I plunk down $100 now, can I beta test ?
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It's a cool idea, but it seems like, unless the natural spin due to the coriolis effect is cancelled out some how, these things would create tornadoes : ( Does anyone have more info ?
Don't do what the poor buncha' college kids did in my town a while back. The motel where they booked the room wouldn't let them plug into their AC outlets for some reason. They had a generator, but hadn't planned the load well or gotten it setup before people arrived. I finally asked for my $ back and split after the third time the power to my lan box was cut : (
I still haven't been able to get a proxim-based Linksys USB11 to work with FC1 on my 5100 : ( Please post your results with the new device : )
It's not available on line at journal's web site or the university's, at least I didn't find it : ( Anyone know where it is ?
You're not being very optimistic : ( I'm amused that you've included seti@home as an alternative... Many of the arguments that you posit against trying to crack the signing keys have been arguments against SETI too. It seems that you're making a value judgement here and that's fine with me, but I think I'll be doing both for a while. Thanks for the encouragement : )
OK, you're right that it would take an inordinate amount of time to search the "entire" key space, but statistically speaking it's still possible to get "lucky" and find the key before you've exausted the key space. I know it's optimistic, but stranger things have happend IRL. I beleive the EFF's DES cracker found the correct key after seaching through about half of the DES keyspace... Sure 2048-bit RSA is a *MUCH* harder problem, but it doesn't mean we shouldn't try : )
Am I jumping the gun here or does this opens up the beautifully ironic possiblity of using untold numbers of un-modded X-Boxen to find the Private Key that is used to sign X-box code ? I don't know about you but I'm off to get the hardware and the game to give this a try...
The poster didn't ask it about 256 bit AES keys. He asked about modern PGP. Since the default behavious of most PGP implemtations is to use a symetric session key that is quite a bit less that 256-bit AES, the detailed answer you gave is irrelevant : (
If you're sloppy with your keys or repetitive in your plain texts, social engineering or differential analysis will be much more effective than brute force. If you're careful it'll be difficult for anyone to get your info. If you're not, well it'll be trivial : (
*Groan* Yeah, I see it now : ) I'm not sure how I missed that before... It's not really a great place to put it. It'll radiate and convect heat to the drives *AND* the parts on the mobo : (
The animation doesn't show the PS anywhere.
I'd guess it's in the bottom, under the drives...
That would seem to be less than ideal for cooling : (
It *IS* funky looking though and it lets you get to your KVM connections easily, perhaps too easily. It should have a hatch that covers the slots, but has cut-outs to route cables through.
Yes, yes, yes !
$200-$300 dollars seems a bit high,
but I'd gladly sell my X-Box, my PS2, and my DC to
get my hands on something that was both hackable and
hacker friendly : ) Where's the waiting list ? Where do I sign up ? If I plunk down $100 now, can I beta test ?