Conceptually I suspect the large effective key size difference is due to this.
RSA is the multiplication of 2 numbers, which in a way is like the Pythagorean solution to a circle. The answer of the private key is a circle that passes through a known point.
The Elliptical curve equations is more like knowing the private key is an ellipse passing through the known point.
I am not a cryptographer, but I have read the equations of both types of crypto, and I formed that opinion.
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I agree. It is already hard enough to stop identity theft. The combination of poorly tested hardware, and over-confidence in imperfect verification, could make a scary future. We need to fight for freedom, and to keep the world from being a like the (bad) sci-fi of The Net .
I believe this is the result of a corporate poker game type situation.
WM rep: We don't want to pay $49 per copy of XP, we can only pay 25$. MS Rep: $49 is the lowest our rates go. All the big distributors pay it. Dell, IBM, Compaq. You don't sell 1/20 the volume of them. You should be glad to get that rate. WM rep: Give it to us at $25 or we wont even put on OS on them. MS Rep: You can't do that, its illegal. WM rep: Not in Europe.
So Wal-Mart was called and shipped with no OS. The reason they put Lindows on them now is that some people turned them on, called and tried to get help installing Windows/Linux/whatever. They put Lindows on and now the boxes are service by replacement. If they don't boot up correctly they send another. That's it, no other support needed.
According to Thermodynamics, the maximum amount of energy that could be obtained by such a device is related to a few things:
1. The temperature difference between skin contact area and the air.
2. The surface area of the device.
3. The ability of the skin to supply power by reheating the chilled area in contact with the device.
.etc...
The efficiency of thermoelectric devices was pretty low in my engineering school days. I would assume they have increased like that of solar cells has.
And such devices could be used in general for smokestacks and other (waste) heat sources. The problem is that the property of insulation is really desirable for such things. And thermoelectric devices like to conduct heat so that more energy can be extracted.
Did not everyone see this coming? Even though QT may have been given 'Open Source' (TM) status, GNOME seems more along the line of the DEBIAN/GNU ethos. I wondered about the possible conflict ever since it was announced.
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Conceptually I suspect the large effective key size difference is due to this.
RSA is the multiplication of 2 numbers, which in a way is like the Pythagorean solution to a circle. The answer of the private key is a circle that passes through a known point.
The Elliptical curve equations is more like knowing the private key is an ellipse passing through the known point.
I am not a cryptographer, but I have read the equations of both types of crypto, and I formed that opinion.
I agree. It is already hard enough to stop identity theft. The combination of poorly tested hardware, and over-confidence in imperfect verification, could make a scary future. We need to fight for freedom, and to keep the world from being a like the (bad) sci-fi of The Net .
FYI: That Heinlein novel was named Friday.
I believe this is the result of a corporate poker game type situation.
WM rep: We don't want to pay $49 per copy of XP, we can only pay 25$.
MS Rep: $49 is the lowest our rates go. All the big distributors pay it. Dell, IBM, Compaq. You don't sell 1/20 the volume of them. You should be glad to get that rate.
WM rep: Give it to us at $25 or we wont even put on OS on them.
MS Rep: You can't do that, its illegal.
WM rep: Not in Europe.
So Wal-Mart was called and shipped with no OS. The reason they put Lindows on them now is that some people turned them on, called and tried to get help installing Windows/Linux/whatever. They put Lindows on and now the boxes are service by replacement. If they don't boot up correctly they send another. That's it, no other support needed.
They said the same thing when I was in college 10 years ago.
According to Thermodynamics, the maximum amount of energy that could be obtained by such a device is related to a few things:
1. The temperature difference between skin contact area and the air.
2. The surface area of the device.
3. The ability of the skin to supply power by reheating the chilled area in contact with the device.
.etc...
The efficiency of thermoelectric devices was pretty low in my engineering school days. I would assume they have increased like that of solar cells has.
And such devices could be used in general for smokestacks and other (waste) heat sources. The problem is that the property of insulation is really desirable for such things. And thermoelectric devices like to conduct heat so that more energy can be extracted.
NTFS does count as a genuine journaling filesystem. But Microsoft's Linux/GNU driver is of inferior quality.
LISP is also famous to engineers as the macro language used in AutoCAD.
Did not everyone see this coming? Even though QT may have been given 'Open Source' (TM) status, GNOME seems more along the line of the DEBIAN/GNU ethos. I wondered about the possible conflict ever since it was announced.