The attack is based on known weaknesses in the cryptographic hash function known as MD5. In 2004, researchers from China showed it was possible to generate the same MD5 fingerprint for two different messages using off-the-shelf computer hardware. Three years later, a separate group of researchers - many who participated in Tuesday's presentation in Berlin - built off of those findings by showing how to have almost complete freedom in the choice of both messages.
Maybe I am missing some precision thrust of meaning with your choice of words but my understanding is that the researchers utilized brute force to readily take advantage of a known weakness of MD5. No, it is not broken for everything, but it is most definitively broken for use within the PKI infrastructure (signing certificates).
You just gave me an awesome idea! imagine this: Sim Politics.
You could work your way up from mayor of your town to president of the world. You could choose which bribes to accept, who to lie to, and all the other fun things that come along with being a politician. Tell me that game wouldn't kick ass if it was done right. You just gave me an awesome idea! imagine this: Sim Suicide.
You could watch people play Sim Politics (or hey, even the real thing!) and then feel compelled to shoot yourself in the face.
Learn to be someone with the self control to say "I don't have time to play games right now, I have work to do". I just learned to be someone with the self control to say, "I don't have time to read slashdot right now, I have work to do". Thanks!
So who is right (metaphorically speaking?), or what has changed since the first article was written? Did this make anyone else's head explode? Someone help me here, where is the metaphor?
I have to agree with another poster that posited that this article's submitter is the same shill that wrote the blog entries.
In Iraq today, as in India once upon a time, resistance to a foreign occupying power is "domestic protest". What a fucking stretch. You may have noticed that the overwhelming majority of "protesting" happening in Iraq today is in the form of Muslim-on-Muslim violence. You know, staunch believers of "the religion of peace" planting and/or delivering explosives amongst civilians at worship. Or the same believers beheading those in Iraq that wish for a peaceful, secure country and therefore join the U.S.-trained police/security forces. How in the hell can anyone equate Ghandi's non-violent protests in British Imperial India with today's mayhem in Iraq?
P.S. Yeah, I'm a little biased being from the west, but I'm also an atheist. So all you peaceful Muslims out there with their knickers in a twist over what I wrote, please be at ease and know that my mockery is directed soley at those individuals that perpetrate heinous acts in the name of and therefore mock most sinfully the tenets of, your religion.
IBM's probably holding off until it's finished decapitating SCO, putting holy wafer in its mouth, a stake in its heart, and then burying it at a crossroads.
Good job working lesser-known vampire lore into tech business commentary!
uhhh... diets high in synthetic hormones are already linked to lower testosterone and higher estrogen levels. I would say, if anything, meatier American diets are likely the culprit.
And why else would would we go there? Scienctists can build robots to measure effects more acuratly then they would by hand. Tourism is a collosal waste and those who go will be the people with more money than they really deserve. So really...why do we need to go there?
Forgive me if I come off a little harsh... but inanity such as you took the time to type out is one very good reason. We can only program robots to do so much and there is no substitute for actual human experience. Without human experience how else are we to react to the world around us? In whatever incarnation we do finally realize some semblance of "thinking" machines the era in which we do so is still some many years off.
Another reason to "go there" would be to put some appreciable distance between myself and the fecund abberants of humanity that seem to be driving this world to calamity--yeah I'm talking about the "believers". Fuck you and your faith. I'd be happier if I had a few million kilometers between myself and the kooks with nuclear arsenals owning in aggregate more than enough warheads to slag humanity a few times over.
2. In many cases I might agree with you. But mashup is an emerging art. And it beats Shitney every time.
Every time you say ?! But, but... what about mashups with "Shitney" songs (using the term 'song' loosely of course) ? "Oops I did it again" mashed into "Papa don't preach" might be amusing!
People like choice, they hate the results of having that choice.
That is far too simplistic a statement to be accurate. It's more like this: Most consumers want choice but dislike the burden of dealing with the consequences of other consumers's different choices as they affect their own.
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an entire bowel of free after dinner mints
What a terrible image!
What is so terrible about minty-fresh poop?
Out of curiosity, what are the best of hobbies that have great value in the end?
Making ass pennies.
Firstly, from this article:
Maybe I am missing some precision thrust of meaning with your choice of words but my understanding is that the researchers utilized brute force to readily take advantage of a known weakness of MD5. No, it is not broken for everything, but it is most definitively broken for use within the PKI infrastructure (signing certificates).
I wonder how many readers here actually get the joke? The thing is, it looks more like an F-102 Delta Dart/Dagger to me.
I think you'll find that tool is slang for penis.
You could work your way up from mayor of your town to president of the world. You could choose which bribes to accept, who to lie to, and all the other fun things that come along with being a politician. Tell me that game wouldn't kick ass if it was done right. You just gave me an awesome idea! imagine this: Sim Suicide.
You could watch people play Sim Politics (or hey, even the real thing!) and then feel compelled to shoot yourself in the face.
If I pose a stupid rhetorical question, but it makes me chuckle and/or snicker, is it still a stupid rhetorical question?
+1 insightful
+1 pun
Well done friend, well done.
I have to agree with another poster that posited that this article's submitter is the same shill that wrote the blog entries.
The thing is, utilizing yum may not be the "most obvious way" to us old-timers that cut our teeth on RPM.
P.S. Yeah, I'm a little biased being from the west, but I'm also an atheist. So all you peaceful Muslims out there with their knickers in a twist over what I wrote, please be at ease and know that my mockery is directed soley at those individuals that perpetrate heinous acts in the name of and therefore mock most sinfully the tenets of, your religion.
I thought guilt implied some form of touching one's self having been committed.
Good job working lesser-known vampire lore into tech business commentary!
Don't expect a lawsuit to come of this. That would mean discovery.
If SCO can get away with it why not you ?!
you forgot to make the warning text blink!
uhhh... diets high in synthetic hormones are already linked to lower testosterone and higher estrogen levels. I would say, if anything, meatier American diets are likely the culprit.
there, fixed!
Whoa, whoa, WHOA there pardner! That's anarchy, son, and we'll have none of that here!
Forgive me if I come off a little harsh
Another reason to "go there" would be to put some appreciable distance between myself and the fecund abberants of humanity that seem to be driving this world to calamity--yeah I'm talking about the "believers". Fuck you and your faith. I'd be happier if I had a few million kilometers between myself and the kooks with nuclear arsenals owning in aggregate more than enough warheads to slag humanity a few times over.
knee-jerk heathen
Every time you say ?! But, but
"Oops I did it again" mashed into "Papa don't preach" might be amusing!
That's debatable.
Most mash-ups that I've heard I would much rather listen to the songs serially and in their entireties.
That is far too simplistic a statement to be accurate. It's more like this: Most consumers want choice but dislike the burden of dealing with the consequences of other consumers's different choices as they affect their own.