He claims his cipher cannot be broken at all, no matter how many supercomputers you use (unconditional security). That is complete rubbish. Any calculation can be reversed no matter how complicated. You just need some computing power.
I quote from the origina article:
"The currently used DES encryption method, which is now being replaced by AES (Advanced Encryption Standard), was once thought unbreakable and can now be cracked in a matter of minutes to hours," said Robert Kauffman, who helped his son write parts of the computer program. "The AES also can be cracked in theory. These algorithms have computational security, which means they can be broken if enough time and computer power are used. AES would take hundreds of years to break with today's supercomputers. Jason's cryptography has unconditional security and can be proven unbreakable. Supercomputers won't make any difference."
This is great news for hackers! With all those security patches, it is getting harder and harder to find those bugs and exploits. (micro$oft products excluded). Some described the 'drive by hack' as driving with your car through a city, scanning the wireless networks (extending outside the house). Now the network is comming to you. Just park your car in some business area and you can scan/hack all of the networks within a 2 mile radius. FLT, not just any theorem.
It is not 'ideal surface', but 'minimal surface'. A minimal surface is a surface that has minimal area within certain constraints. Soap bubbles are examples of minimal surfaces. Floating in the air they ar not so very interesting. But when three or more bubbles stick together you get interesting membranes. Also using metal-wire frames and emmerging them in soap gives strange examples of minimal surfaces.
FLT, not just any theorem.
The machine that turns itself off is so cool!! During math-colleges I was completely facinated by this idea and drew cartoon-like scenario pictures of it again and again, dreaming of building it. it probably appeals only to the more math-minded people.
We should be careful not to treat children/humans as test-subjects. I get the feeling the children in India could have been replaced by monkeys, dolphins (change the user interface).
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He claims his cipher cannot be broken at all, no matter how many supercomputers you use (unconditional security). That is complete rubbish. Any calculation can be reversed no matter how complicated. You just need some computing power.
I quote from the origina article:
"The currently used DES encryption method, which is now being replaced by AES (Advanced Encryption Standard), was once thought unbreakable and can now be cracked in a matter of minutes to hours," said Robert Kauffman, who helped his son write parts of the computer program. "The AES also can be cracked in theory. These algorithms have computational security, which means they can be broken if enough time and computer power are used. AES would take hundreds of years to break with today's supercomputers. Jason's cryptography has unconditional security and can be proven unbreakable. Supercomputers won't make any difference."
This is great news for hackers! With all those security patches, it is getting harder and harder to find those bugs and exploits. (micro$oft products excluded). Some described the 'drive by hack' as driving with your car through a city, scanning the wireless networks (extending outside the house). Now the network is comming to you. Just park your car in some business area and you can scan/hack all of the networks within a 2 mile radius.
FLT, not just any theorem.
It is not 'ideal surface', but 'minimal surface'. A minimal surface is a surface that has minimal area within certain constraints. Soap bubbles are examples of minimal surfaces. Floating in the air they ar not so very interesting. But when three or more bubbles stick together you get interesting membranes. Also using metal-wire frames and emmerging them in soap gives strange examples of minimal surfaces. FLT, not just any theorem.
The machine that turns itself off is so cool!! During math-colleges I was completely facinated by this idea and drew cartoon-like scenario pictures of it again and again, dreaming of building it. it probably appeals only to the more math-minded people.
FLT, not just any theorem.
We should be careful not to treat children/humans as test-subjects. I get the feeling the children in India could have been replaced by monkeys, dolphins (change the user interface). FLT