Nobody (but the camera) knows or stores the camera's secret key. (first time the camera is booted it generates the key, and displays it's public key to the world; which the manufacturer saves in their db).
Then, I'd think, it would be possible for an end-user to 'hack' the camera and get the private key using the same technique the manufacturer uses to get it.:-/
Can anyone imagine what kind of storage requirements this will need...? Not even to speak of the amount of technology that can store that amount of data that quickly. ---------------------------------------- -----------
That's strange... What I'm wondering about is what kind of impact such an impact (not intended, I promise!) will have on the orbit of a body such as the moon. It's many times lighter than the earth, so a bigger object will surely wreak havoc with the orbit of the moon. And then things will get interesting...
How long before the orbit decays enough that the moon starts to move away very quickly from the earth... And the tides growing smaller and smaller each day. It's something that's interested me for a time now...
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I think thats exactly where good faith vs. bad faith comes in. If you were to provide such a service, that will obviously have no lingering effects other than the stated 15-sec delay, you'd probably be in the clear...? --------------------------------------- ------------
Ah, but nowhere does this article try to disprove that, does it? The whole point is that certain codecs does a better, more intelligent job of discarding information, and that is what the author set out to prove. ------------------------------------------ ---------
The only problem I can foresee with this one is that you have little to no control over the actual routines involved in the encryption. How would you know that they're actually using whatever advanced encryption they're promising, instead of just doing a base64 XOR 67 on everything? *grin* Well, anything short of maybe putting the drive on a regular controller and doing your own cryptanalysis of the contents. The reason for this, I could think, is possibly to please the NSA and providing a backdoor. What about even something like adding a second decryption key, as with the recent PGP fiasco?
The advantage with software is that you can at least still review everything and make sure it's working as it's supposed to be. With hardware, you move into a totally different realm, at least for us non-EE graduate-types...
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I have updated to both 6.9.5 and 7.0 as soon as they were released. In comparison, 7.0 is *much* more stable than 6.9.5, and is completely on par with 6.2 as far as I'm concerned.
I've been running RH since their 3.x.x days, so I'm kinda biased, I guess.
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This is true, unfortunately. Here in South Africa, we have such a lot to go in terms of barriers before we can ever reach the level of the western world - there is just too many priorities to which the money must go, and (alas) also so many corrupt pockets on the gravy train that need filling.
Free internet is something that will not happen (for a while, anyway). We have a monopoly in terms of telco providers (as in regulated by law!), and they also have the monopoly on supplying our international links. You can look at a standard latency of 600ms for crossing the Atlantic via satellite (or whatever awful copper cable there probably still lies on the seabed). Some recent upstarts have tried selling a advertising-based 'free' internet service, but it is so hopelessly flooded that you'd better not hope on getting decent bandwidth.
Above all, we're mostly all still on modems. ISDN is relatively new (not to mention expensive), and DSL has only been available in a few select places at rediculous prices.
But, somehow, the ISP market is flourishing. You see all these fly-by-night episodes, and even mother ISPs are offering a 'virtual ISP' job, where you have no physical equipment. You just basically resell a bigger ISP's service.
In any case, it's not the government's priority now to supply people with free internet. South Africa recently passed the 1.6million internet users, and (memory serving) that comprises of 90% of Africa's total usage. The thing is - it is just not an option now.
On the upside, many companies are jumping to constructively use the internet to their advantage. I was pleasantly surprised to find the local railway's time schedule online, albeit just in one huge table. So, I think given time, companies with a bit of genius will get to the forefront of development in this arena. Just think of Thawte! ----------------------------------------- ----------
Just one thing: ZDNet makes the following claim: "...deep sleep mode that uses only 20 milowatts of power". Now, I dunno whether I've been sleeping, but since when is "milo" an ISO prefix? And what does it signify, anyway?
I don't trust that the motion picture companies won't abandon current generation DVD players and/or format in order to get around the problem of CSS being broken.
I think that, obviously, they'll invent a new way to get past this hurdle. DVD-NG (or whatever) players, will then also have to be backwards-compatible to service all the current DVDs in circulation: Just the other day I read about the huge increase in DVD sales in '99...
Thing is - not even the current issues with CD-ROM / Playstation / et al CD copying have not even been sorted out... There exists, as to my knowledge, no really effective way to protect CD-ROM-based games from being copied. The software has to decide "Is this copied, yes or no?", and there is the weak link - just patch it, and voila. To the same extent was getting past DVD region codes "just a hack" away. Nowadays, however, it seems regionless DVD-ROMs are becoming scarcer and scarcer...
The point that I'm trying to make is this: Is there a really effective and unbreakable way to protect digital data meant for public consumption? Sure, you can encrypt something for private (read: limited distribution) use, but as soon as the public factor comes into play, you have a problem.
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Nobody (but the camera) knows or stores the camera's secret key. (first time the camera is booted it generates the key, and displays it's public key to the world; which the manufacturer saves in their db).
Then, I'd think, it would be possible for an end-user to 'hack' the camera and get the private key using the same technique the manufacturer uses to get it. :-/
German fitness, just like that East German Olympic team, from Top Secret? :)
Can anyone imagine what kind of storage requirements this will need...? Not even to speak of the amount of technology that can store that amount of data that quickly.- -----------
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How long before the orbit decays enough that the moon starts to move away very quickly from the earth... And the tides growing smaller and smaller each day. It's something that's interested me for a time now...- ---
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I think thats exactly where good faith vs. bad faith comes in. If you were to provide such a service, that will obviously have no lingering effects other than the stated 15-sec delay, you'd probably be in the clear...?- ------------
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Ah, but nowhere does this article try to disprove that, does it? The whole point is that certain codecs does a better, more intelligent job of discarding information, and that is what the author set out to prove.- ---------
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The only problem I can foresee with this one is that you have little to no control over the actual routines involved in the encryption. How would you know that they're actually using whatever advanced encryption they're promising, instead of just doing a base64 XOR 67 on everything? *grin* Well, anything short of maybe putting the drive on a regular controller and doing your own cryptanalysis of the contents. The reason for this, I could think, is possibly to please the NSA and providing a backdoor. What about even something like adding a second decryption key, as with the recent PGP fiasco?
The advantage with software is that you can at least still review everything and make sure it's working as it's supposed to be. With hardware, you move into a totally different realm, at least for us non-EE graduate-types...- ---
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I have updated to both 6.9.5 and 7.0 as soon as they were released. In comparison, 7.0 is *much* more stable than 6.9.5, and is completely on par with 6.2 as far as I'm concerned. I've been running RH since their 3.x.x days, so I'm kinda biased, I guess.- ---
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Try this one for more info.- --------
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This is true, unfortunately. Here in South Africa, we have such a lot to go in terms of barriers before we can ever reach the level of the western world - there is just too many priorities to which the money must go, and (alas) also so many corrupt pockets on the gravy train that need filling.
Free internet is something that will not happen (for a while, anyway). We have a monopoly in terms of telco providers (as in regulated by law!), and they also have the monopoly on supplying our international links. You can look at a standard latency of 600ms for crossing the Atlantic via satellite (or whatever awful copper cable there probably still lies on the seabed). Some recent upstarts have tried selling a advertising-based 'free' internet service, but it is so hopelessly flooded that you'd better not hope on getting decent bandwidth.
Above all, we're mostly all still on modems. ISDN is relatively new (not to mention expensive), and DSL has only been available in a few select places at rediculous prices.
But, somehow, the ISP market is flourishing. You see all these fly-by-night episodes, and even mother ISPs are offering a 'virtual ISP' job, where you have no physical equipment. You just basically resell a bigger ISP's service.
In any case, it's not the government's priority now to supply people with free internet. South Africa recently passed the 1.6million internet users, and (memory serving) that comprises of 90% of Africa's total usage. The thing is - it is just not an option now.
On the upside, many companies are jumping to constructively use the internet to their advantage. I was pleasantly surprised to find the local railway's time schedule online, albeit just in one huge table. So, I think given time, companies with a bit of genius will get to the forefront of development in this arena. Just think of Thawte!- ----------
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Thorough articles.
Just one thing: ZDNet makes the following claim: "...deep sleep mode that uses only 20 milowatts of power". Now, I dunno whether I've been sleeping, but since when is "milo" an ISO prefix? And what does it signify, anyway?
I don't trust that the motion picture companies won't abandon current generation DVD players and/or format in order to get around the problem of CSS being broken.
I think that, obviously, they'll invent a new way to get past this hurdle. DVD-NG (or whatever) players, will then also have to be backwards-compatible to service all the current DVDs in circulation: Just the other day I read about the huge increase in DVD sales in '99...
Thing is - not even the current issues with CD-ROM / Playstation / et al CD copying have not even been sorted out... There exists, as to my knowledge, no really effective way to protect CD-ROM-based games from being copied. The software has to decide "Is this copied, yes or no?", and there is the weak link - just patch it, and voila. To the same extent was getting past DVD region codes "just a hack" away. Nowadays, however, it seems regionless DVD-ROMs are becoming scarcer and scarcer...
The point that I'm trying to make is this: Is there a really effective and unbreakable way to protect digital data meant for public consumption? Sure, you can encrypt something for private (read: limited distribution) use, but as soon as the public factor comes into play, you have a problem.
Love any comments...