I suspect they are talking about their new SAN (storage area network) technologies. Try here for the usual IBM marketing-speak (with some technical info).
"I simply can't grasp the concept that you could do cryptography without computers. "
The people at Bletchley Park couldn't do it without computers either. So they designed and built computers to help them. The machines that they built were truly astonishing. They were, in modern terms, massively parallel processors. They pushed I/O performance to ridiculous levels using paper tape, and broke the strongest ciphers in the world at that time fast enough that the information still had tactical value when decrypted.
Having Alan Turing on the project helped. He must go down in history as one of the greatest thinkers of the twentith century. Everyone in the Western world owes an awful lot to the people who worked on code breaking at Bletchley in the Second World War.
The people who risked (and often lost) their lives bringing information about the German's cryptographic technology also played a vital role. I am very glad they did what they did.
It puts the "My OS is better than your OS" arguments in perspective, doesn't it?
I disagree about the colour. I'd say 'purplish green'.
I tried to describe it to people who weren't in the path of totality and failed. It is unbelievably strange. I want to see another one. Africa anybody?
Ha. That was only a partial eclipse (As viewed from the Jovian surface). I believe that Earth is the only planet in the solar system that gets total eclipses.
I was in the path of totality for the recent eclipse. We had 10/10 cloud cover and it was still awe-inspiring.
Is the US the only nation to prohibit export of crypto technology? Here in UK we have a number of tools that are a slightly stronger than 56bit. I hope that the US departments responsible for the export restrictions realise that it is possible to do mathematics outside their borders. Until they successfully ban 'foreigners' from doing maths in their own nations, the export ban will continue to be ineffective.
I wonder how the US military feel about this data being available?
The US Navy seem to have responded by placing a large order. A book about the history of US submarines has leapfrogged to the top (unless you were only counting 'techie' books in your list).
Companies and individuals may have good reasons to be worried about this sort of information being available, but the data released provides information about the US military to potentially unfriendly governments.
I would be very surprised if the military data is still listed in 24 hours time.
The server seems to be a bit/.ed at the moment, so I haven't read the whole thing. I don't think there's any maths in the first few hundred lines though. In my experience you can tell a reasonable proof even if the language is poor. I couldn't see any coherent logic flow here.
It's 10:05 GMT. The Windows box is down. The Linux box is up That's nearly four days. Which OS am I going to recommend to my boss? It'd be interesting to see this done with Linux on Intel as well.
It doesn't like it if you enter a large comment. It should either say 'Comment too long - try again' or 'Comment truncated'. 0/10 for web application development ability.
I suspect they're storing this in SQL Server. I wonder if it's on the same box, or another one 'outside' the firewall? Might be fun to play with some adjacent IP addresses....(It's M$, they could have been stupid - they have been before;-))
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Linux/BSD - WHAT do you want to DO today?
I want to REBOOT!!!!
Why do you think I run NT?
It's another of those irregular verbs:
/.ed for the forseeable future"
"My site is slow becuse of it's popularity"
"Your site is slow because of design flaws"
"His site is
Watch "Yes, Minister" for further examples (If the BBC have exported it yet)
Funny, I sit around a lot too much just hitting the "Restart" button on my NT box at work. Am I addicted? No. Am I ashamed? Yes.
I suspect they are talking about their new SAN (storage area network) technologies. Try here for the usual IBM marketing-speak (with some technical info).
"I simply can't grasp the concept that you could do cryptography without computers. "
The people at Bletchley Park couldn't do it without computers either. So they designed and built computers to help them. The machines that they built were truly astonishing. They were, in modern terms, massively parallel processors. They pushed I/O performance to ridiculous levels using paper tape, and broke the strongest ciphers in the world at that time fast enough that the information still had tactical value when decrypted.
Having Alan Turing on the project helped. He must go down in history as one of the greatest thinkers of the twentith century.
Everyone in the Western world owes an awful lot to the people who worked on code breaking at Bletchley in the Second World War.
The people who risked (and often lost) their lives bringing information about the German's cryptographic technology also played a vital role. I am very glad they did what they did.
It puts the "My OS is better than your OS" arguments in perspective, doesn't it?
I disagree about the colour. I'd say 'purplish green'.
I tried to describe it to people who weren't in the path of totality and failed. It is unbelievably strange. I want to see another one. Africa anybody?
Ha. That was only a partial eclipse (As viewed from the Jovian surface). I believe that Earth is the only planet in the solar system that gets total eclipses.
I was in the path of totality for the recent eclipse. We had 10/10 cloud cover and it was still awe-inspiring.
See you in Africa for the next one.
Is the US the only nation to prohibit export of crypto technology? Here in UK we have a number of tools that are a slightly stronger than 56bit. I hope that the US departments responsible for the export restrictions realise that it is possible to do mathematics outside their borders. Until they successfully ban 'foreigners' from doing maths in their own nations, the export ban will continue to be ineffective.
... and Finland is in Europe. And he's welcome back anytime.
If I had a Hotmail account (which I don't)
And I had commercially sensitive data in my email (which would be stupid on a non-POP3 server)
And I was able to prove financial loss through this breach (which will almost certainly be the case for someone)
Who do I sue?
There is a place in this world for lawyers. But then there's a place for fungus too.
Encrypted backups?
I wonder how the US military feel about this data being available?
The US Navy seem to have responded by placing a large order. A book about the history of US submarines has leapfrogged to the top (unless you were only counting 'techie' books in your list).
Companies and individuals may have good reasons to be worried about this sort of information being available, but the data released provides information about the US military to potentially unfriendly governments.
I would be very surprised if the military data is still listed in 24 hours time.
The server seems to be a bit /.ed at the moment, so I haven't read the whole thing. I don't think there's any maths in the first few hundred lines though. In my experience you can tell a reasonable proof even if the language is poor. I couldn't see any coherent logic flow here.
And the criminals.
Have you considered installing a spell checker? ispell is quite good. If you're using a Microsoft product, the F7 key may be of assistance.
Hope this helps,
Chaz
It's 10:05 GMT. The Windows box is down. The Linux box is up That's nearly four days. Which OS am I going to recommend to my boss?
It'd be interesting to see this done with Linux on Intel as well.
It doesn't like it if you enter a large comment. It should either say 'Comment too long - try again' or 'Comment truncated'. 0/10 for web application development ability.
;-))
I suspect they're storing this in SQL Server. I wonder if it's on the same box, or another one 'outside' the firewall? Might be fun to play with some adjacent IP addresses....(It's M$, they could have been stupid - they have been before