So are these keys a sign of weaknesses in specific implementations of RSA key generation or could they have arisen by pure chance due to 2 random number generators picking the exact same number (or is it a combination of both)?
From what I know about RSA, the security comes from having 2 large secret prime numbers (call them P and Q).
From reading this new paper, what these guys have been able to do is to take a pair of public keys and identify if one or both of the large secret prime numbers is the same between both keys. Am I reading things right, is this what they have found?
And just how dangerous is it in the real world? I would assume that unless you can find (using this new discovery) a public key where one or both of P and Q match a key you already have the private half of, you cant decrypt.
The big problem for TV manufacturers is convincing people who already have a flat screen TVs that they need a new TV. People bought (and are buying) flat screen TVs to replace their CRTs because a flat screen TV has clear advantages (even to the lay person) over a CRT in the same way DVD is better than VHS.
But for the people who already have a HDTV, the trick is getting them to buy a new one. Lots of that has focused on making the display itself better (faster refresh rates, better LCD panels, LED back-lighting etc) but its gotten to the point where further advancements in display technology currently cost too much to put into mass market TVs (such as OLED TVs).
So with there being little room to advance in actual display technology (at least in terms of advances that normal consumers will care enough about to buy a new TV), the way TV companies are trying to get people to buy is 3D (which is a hard sell to most consumers given the lack of 3D content out there for their 3DTVs) and smart TVs. Smart TVs make sense for the manufacturers because convincing people that already have a flat screen TV to buy a new one because the new one gets YouTube is a lot easier than convincing people that already have a flat screen TV to buy one because the new one has better picture quality, blacker blacks, faster refresh rate etc.
Personally I would much rather see the research invested in making TVs less power hungry than in making them support all this "smart content" stuff (content that the big media companies would rather you got through network TV or cable/satellite anyway)
The problem is not an open modem stack (in fact, many geeks are happy with phones where the modem is a black box), its convincing someone to sell you a modem chip-set or module at a reasonable price when you aren't making the massive quantity of handsets the big boys are making.
I think the biggest things the GTA04 team need to do (other than obvious improvements in the omap-side software stack) is to further negotiate with vendors to get more hardware information made public (e.g. finding a way to convince the vendor of the WiFi/Bluetooth chip to let them publish the schematic page for that chip) and to work with the makers of the UMTS module to improve the firmware to be more suitable for a cellphone vs the mobile broadband devices the module is usually used for.
I don't know how the hardware works but I bet its possible to come up with a better looking case that still fits the PCB and I bet it might be possible to use a larger (but still pin compatible) LCD screen (although that depends whether the touchscreen and LCD controllers on the GAT04 PCB are compatible with the newer touchscreen you choose to use)
If you read the summary, it says they are already producing these molecules via cell cultures.
A protein is a VERY complex molecule and simply inserting a gene into a yeast strain might not produce a protein that is similar enough to what humans make to be viable as a drug.
If you look at the Tesla Motors Model X website, they have an animation showing how the special "Falcon" double hinged doors open and why these doors wont be a problem in cramped parking lots.
Also, I dont think the Model X is intended to be a high-ground-clearance vehicle but it doesn't NEED to be one for the intended use case. For something that doesn't leave the black stuff, high-ground-clearance is not necessary.
I cant speak to the weight and capacity as I cant find information on the Tesla Motors website.
Explaining to people that they should consider buying a Blu-Ray player to go with their new TV or that they need a USB cable to go with that new printer (without being too pushy) is fine. Whats NOT acceptable is when they (they being Best Buy salespeople or Best Buy as a company): A.Push products that are bogus or unnecessary (like trying to get people to take up magazine subscriptions that they probably dont want or need or like trying to sell "extended warranties") B.Try to hide information (e.g. not telling you except in the fine print that after you get your 8 free copies of , you are automatically subscribed to the magazine until you cancel) C.Suggest or recommend expensive products when cheaper options will work just as good for the customer (like pushing people to buy the more expensive brand of HDMI cable when the cheaper brand is just as good) D.Continue to push ANYTHING on a customer when the customer has said no. (i.e. "Are you sure you dont want that extended warranty?") or E.Require salespeople to push specific items or to meet certain quotas on specific items
Not only do they need to stop pushing overpriced accessories and service plans on people but they need to stop trying to convince people to buy things other than what they want.
If someone is looking at a Samsung TV, the sales drone shouldn't come over to them and try and sell them a TV from a different brand just because its more profitable to the store.
Something else they need to do is to end the culture where salespeople and stores are in competition with each other and recognize that its better to tell someone "we are out of stock on that item but the store in the next suburb has one in stock" than "we are out of stock on that item, would you like to buy instead?"
Further to that by implementing #2 and #3, they should also ensure that they have items in stock more of the time.
Dick Smith is still good for some things. For example, I wanted a new DVD player (just an el-cheapo) and I went to Dick Smith because they had a dirt cheap unit that works fine and ordering online for something so cheap would have been pointless.
I also bought my current indoor TV antenna from them (being in a ground floor rented apartment means a proper antenna isn't an option) because I wanted TV now, not in a week when the delivery guy gets here.
There is no reason why Apple in conjunction with the Federal Government and others couldn't come up with a way to make the iPhone meet whatever federal standards are necessary, especially if it means a big sale to a major company.
Anyone know what was in these episodes that made them verboten after 9/11? Was it the way that the documentary painted the Muslim Afghans as the "good guys" for fighting against the "evil communists"? (the same Muslims the US has been fighting for the last 10 years or so)
Even if MSE isn't an option, the standard "Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool" that Microsoft makes available as part of every "Patch Tuesday" should be something IT departments are running on their systems.
The F-5 was developed by Northrop into the F-20 Tigershark which Northrop wanted to export to foreign air-forces. But the US government and military colluded to block Northrop from selling any F-20s, mostly because any sales of the F-20 meant less sales of aircraft like the F-16 Fighting Falcon (the military had a vested interest in seeing the F-16 sold to foreign military forces as that made the US F-16 purchases cheaper)
If there are kill switches in US hardware sold internationally, why is the US so worried about the Iranian Air Force and its fleet of F-14A Tomcat fighters?
If (as the white house said) they cant comment because it would require specific law enforcement agency action petition the relevant law enforcement agency (whoever that might be) to carry out whatever action is required to investigate Dodd.
Me on the other hand, I prefer my bag-less vacuum cleaner. I dont need to spend money on proprietary bags plus I can make sure I didn't vacuum up some LEGO by mistake.
As someone who collects LEGO, the whole "set xyz is exclusive to store abc" crap really annoys me. Especially when "store abc" is a store that never has stuff on sale.
Plenty of pirates only pirate because they have no legal option to acquire the content. Sometimes its not available on DVD/Blu-Ray (or digital stream/download) in their country. Sometimes its a TV show that has yet to be picked up by any local TV network (or where the local network is 3 seasons behind or something).
Sometimes its available on a streaming service but the streaming service has DRM (or restrictions) that means they cant watch it on a mobile device or on a TV. Or maybe its a sporting event they want to watch but cant because its blacked out on their local station.
Sometimes the only way to get the content is to spend huge sums of money on other content they dont want and have no interest in (this is common with various cable providers and premium channel packages)
I for one have been watching some History Channel documentaries on YouTube. Why? Because these documentaries are unavailable on DVD in any store in Australia and the only way to get the content legally is to pay over $60 per month to get Foxtel and the History Channel. And there is no gaurantee that any of the shows you want will be aired (and even if they are, you have to pay extra for a PVR or watch then when Foxtel decides to show them, not when you want)
If I could buy some of these documentaries on DVD at a reasonable price (or better yet, pay something even less to rent the DVD or streaming copy) I would do so. But the option is unavailable to me.
Do it like our Australian NBN where everyone gets a fiber link to their house then those fiber links go back to a central point of presence where ISPs can plug in.
Anytime anyone even thinks about mixing "nuclear" and outer-space (even radioisotope generators as used on many space probes) all the anti-nuclear groups kick up a huge fuss.
Unless this mob has something different they can use to convince the anti-nuclear mob that its safe, they will have a hard time actually launching anything without massive protest.
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So are these keys a sign of weaknesses in specific implementations of RSA key generation or could they have arisen by pure chance due to 2 random number generators picking the exact same number (or is it a combination of both)?
From what I know about RSA, the security comes from having 2 large secret prime numbers (call them P and Q).
From reading this new paper, what these guys have been able to do is to take a pair of public keys and identify if one or both of the large secret prime numbers is the same between both keys. Am I reading things right, is this what they have found?
And just how dangerous is it in the real world? I would assume that unless you can find (using this new discovery) a public key where one or both of P and Q match a key you already have the private half of, you cant decrypt.
The big problem for TV manufacturers is convincing people who already have a flat screen TVs that they need a new TV. People bought (and are buying) flat screen TVs to replace their CRTs because a flat screen TV has clear advantages (even to the lay person) over a CRT in the same way DVD is better than VHS.
But for the people who already have a HDTV, the trick is getting them to buy a new one. Lots of that has focused on making the display itself better (faster refresh rates, better LCD panels, LED back-lighting etc) but its gotten to the point where further advancements in display technology currently cost too much to put into mass market TVs (such as OLED TVs).
So with there being little room to advance in actual display technology (at least in terms of advances that normal consumers will care enough about to buy a new TV), the way TV companies are trying to get people to buy is 3D (which is a hard sell to most consumers given the lack of 3D content out there for their 3DTVs) and smart TVs. Smart TVs make sense for the manufacturers because convincing people that already have a flat screen TV to buy a new one because the new one gets YouTube is a lot easier than convincing people that already have a flat screen TV to buy one because the new one has better picture quality, blacker blacks, faster refresh rate etc.
Personally I would much rather see the research invested in making TVs less power hungry than in making them support all this "smart content" stuff (content that the big media companies would rather you got through network TV or cable/satellite anyway)
The problem is not an open modem stack (in fact, many geeks are happy with phones where the modem is a black box), its convincing someone to sell you a modem chip-set or module at a reasonable price when you aren't making the massive quantity of handsets the big boys are making.
I think the biggest things the GTA04 team need to do (other than obvious improvements in the omap-side software stack) is to further negotiate with vendors to get more hardware information made public (e.g. finding a way to convince the vendor of the WiFi/Bluetooth chip to let them publish the schematic page for that chip) and to work with the makers of the UMTS module to improve the firmware to be more suitable for a cellphone vs the mobile broadband devices the module is usually used for.
I don't know how the hardware works but I bet its possible to come up with a better looking case that still fits the PCB and I bet it might be possible to use a larger (but still pin compatible) LCD screen (although that depends whether the touchscreen and LCD controllers on the GAT04 PCB are compatible with the newer touchscreen you choose to use)
If you read the summary, it says they are already producing these molecules via cell cultures.
A protein is a VERY complex molecule and simply inserting a gene into a yeast strain might not produce a protein that is similar enough to what humans make to be viable as a drug.
If you look at the Tesla Motors Model X website, they have an animation showing how the special "Falcon" double hinged doors open and why these doors wont be a problem in cramped parking lots.
Also, I dont think the Model X is intended to be a high-ground-clearance vehicle but it doesn't NEED to be one for the intended use case. For something that doesn't leave the black stuff, high-ground-clearance is not necessary.
I cant speak to the weight and capacity as I cant find information on the Tesla Motors website.
Explaining to people that they should consider buying a Blu-Ray player to go with their new TV or that they need a USB cable to go with that new printer (without being too pushy) is fine. Whats NOT acceptable is when they (they being Best Buy salespeople or Best Buy as a company):
A.Push products that are bogus or unnecessary (like trying to get people to take up magazine subscriptions that they probably dont want or need or like trying to sell "extended warranties")
B.Try to hide information (e.g. not telling you except in the fine print that after you get your 8 free copies of , you are automatically subscribed to the magazine until you cancel)
C.Suggest or recommend expensive products when cheaper options will work just as good for the customer (like pushing people to buy the more expensive brand of HDMI cable when the cheaper brand is just as good)
D.Continue to push ANYTHING on a customer when the customer has said no. (i.e. "Are you sure you dont want that extended warranty?")
or E.Require salespeople to push specific items or to meet certain quotas on specific items
Not only do they need to stop pushing overpriced accessories and service plans on people but they need to stop trying to convince people to buy things other than what they want.
If someone is looking at a Samsung TV, the sales drone shouldn't come over to them and try and sell them a TV from a different brand just because its more profitable to the store.
Something else they need to do is to end the culture where salespeople and stores are in competition with each other and recognize that its better to tell someone "we are out of stock on that item but the store in the next suburb has one in stock" than "we are out of stock on that item, would you like to buy instead?"
Further to that by implementing #2 and #3, they should also ensure that they have items in stock more of the time.
Dick Smith is still good for some things. For example, I wanted a new DVD player (just an el-cheapo) and I went to Dick Smith because they had a dirt cheap unit that works fine and ordering online for something so cheap would have been pointless.
I also bought my current indoor TV antenna from them (being in a ground floor rented apartment means a proper antenna isn't an option) because I wanted TV now, not in a week when the delivery guy gets here.
There is no reason why Apple in conjunction with the Federal Government and others couldn't come up with a way to make the iPhone meet whatever federal standards are necessary, especially if it means a big sale to a major company.
Anyone know what was in these episodes that made them verboten after 9/11?
Was it the way that the documentary painted the Muslim Afghans as the "good guys" for fighting against the "evil communists"? (the same Muslims the US has been fighting for the last 10 years or so)
Even if MSE isn't an option, the standard "Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool" that Microsoft makes available as part of every "Patch Tuesday" should be something IT departments are running on their systems.
The F-5 was developed by Northrop into the F-20 Tigershark which Northrop wanted to export to foreign air-forces. But the US government and military colluded to block Northrop from selling any F-20s, mostly because any sales of the F-20 meant less sales of aircraft like the F-16 Fighting Falcon (the military had a vested interest in seeing the F-16 sold to foreign military forces as that made the US F-16 purchases cheaper)
If there are kill switches in US hardware sold internationally, why is the US so worried about the Iranian Air Force and its fleet of F-14A Tomcat fighters?
The real problem was a government that decided to limit the amount of wheat grown in the first place.
If (as the white house said) they cant comment because it would require specific law enforcement agency action petition the relevant law enforcement agency (whoever that might be) to carry out whatever action is required to investigate Dodd.
Remember that the airframe for this airplane (a KC-135) is basically a late 50s-early 60s design/build.
Me on the other hand, I prefer my bag-less vacuum cleaner. I dont need to spend money on proprietary bags plus I can make sure I didn't vacuum up some LEGO by mistake.
As someone who collects LEGO, the whole "set xyz is exclusive to store abc" crap really annoys me. Especially when "store abc" is a store that never has stuff on sale.
Just search.
Not all pirates pirate simply because its free.
Plenty of pirates only pirate because they have no legal option to acquire the content. Sometimes its not available on DVD/Blu-Ray (or digital stream/download) in their country. Sometimes its a TV show that has yet to be picked up by any local TV network (or where the local network is 3 seasons
behind or something).
Sometimes its available on a streaming service but the streaming service has DRM (or restrictions) that means they cant watch it on a mobile device or on a TV. Or maybe its a sporting event they want to watch but cant because its blacked out on their local station.
Sometimes the only way to get the content is to spend huge sums of money on other content they dont want and have no interest in (this is common with various cable providers and premium channel packages)
I for one have been watching some History Channel documentaries on YouTube. Why? Because these documentaries are unavailable on DVD in any store in Australia and the only way to get the content legally is to pay over $60 per month to get Foxtel and the History Channel. And there is no gaurantee that any of the shows you want will be aired (and even if they are, you have to pay extra for a PVR or watch then when Foxtel decides to show them, not when you want)
If I could buy some of these documentaries on DVD at a reasonable price (or better yet, pay something even less to rent the DVD or streaming copy) I would do so. But the option is unavailable to me.
Messenger is not a social network, its an instant messaging service. And also, last I checked, they dont require real names when you sign up.
Do it like our Australian NBN where everyone gets a fiber link to their house then those fiber links go back to a central point of presence where ISPs can plug in.
Anytime anyone even thinks about mixing "nuclear" and outer-space (even radioisotope generators as used on many space probes) all the anti-nuclear groups kick up a huge fuss.
Unless this mob has something different they can use to convince the anti-nuclear mob that its safe, they will have a hard time actually launching anything without massive protest.